Colonna in Roma in Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Latium, Rome, Italy — Central Italy (Tyrrhenian Coast)
Hotel del Sole
The hotel Sole, among the most ancient in Rome, it is one of the few surviving hotels among those listed in the hotels census made by the cavalier Rufini in 1855. The first news of the hotel goes back to a duty report of the year 1497, according to which some soldiers following Emperor Frederick III found lodging in the inn. The hotel Sole is located in an area that since antiquity swarmed with people and markets usually held in the Piazza della Rotonda, and with solemn festivities promoted by the
Brotherhood of the Virtuosi, that had its seat at the Pantheon, and by the passage of pilgrims that came copious into the city especially on the occasion of Jubilees: one of the events that called visitors from the whole world. In coincidence of the Holy Years the pontiffs promoted important construction jobs, restorations and road set-up, in order to show the magnificence of Rome and to assume all the merit.
In connection with the great fluxes of travellers rose a lot of inns, the most ancient of them were assembled in the Borgo area and around the Trident. An alternative pole is located in the area enclosed among the Minerva, the Pantheon, Argentina and Campo de' Fiori, to which during the Middle Ages, tourists reserved a particular predilection since close to the inns the environments were equipped for the refuge of the carriages and horses. At the end of the 15th century the small inn, first nucleus of what is today the hotel Sole, was known as Inn of the Ram, a name maintained up to the first years of the 17th century. In the XVI century it belonged to the family of the Alberinis and passed then on to the Turks and therefore
to the clergyman of Chamber native of Viterbo, Giovanni Bitonto (the same Bitonto that commissioned to Sebastiano del Piombo the famous Pietà, today on display at the Civic Museum of Viterbo), to finally become pertinence of the Benedictine nuns of seclusion of the near convent of S. Maria in Campo Marzio. But other owners and managers followed during the years in the hotel Sole, among the last ones the Muzzi family that assumed the management of the hotel in 1968. Subsequently the historical hotel was acquired by a society that operated a radical restoration, submitting it to the architects of the Vivai del Sud that have enhanced the 16th century imprint. The building, whose older part is recognisable in the right block (the one in which the windows are asymmetrical in comparison with the three lined up on the left), is qualified by a harmonical and elegant façade in tiles, articulated by Travertino marble stringcourse cornices. The central storeys are illuminated by windows defined by arched and centring supported cornices of clear 15th century matrix overhung by a beautiful rectilinear frame with umbones in the angles. The last floor was instead defined by a loggia, enriched with old prints of that period, which is today closed and replaced by simple windows. The hotel has passed to history because of the its illustrious guests, as the marmoreal headstones on the façade attest, from Ludovico Ariosto, that came to Rome to hail Pope Leon X and resided here during the first years of the 16th century, to the mysterious alchemist Cagliostro whose real name was Giuseppe Balsamo, that stopped here in 1768. Also Mascagni lodged here on the occasion of the triumphal premiere of the Cavalleria Rusticana, held in the Teatro dell'Opera in 1890.
Erected by Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Comune di Roma, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturale, Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali, Politiche Promozione Internazionale del Turismo e della Moda, Progetto Mirabilia and Piano di Comunicazione del Patrimonio Culturale Nazionale.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Industry & Commerce. A significant historical year for this entry is 1855.
Location. 41° 53.974′ N, 12° 28.615′ E. Marker is in Roma, Lazio (Latium, Rome), in Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale. It is in Colonna. It is at the intersection of Piazza della Rotonda and Piazza della Rotonda, on the right when traveling north on Piazza della Rotonda. The marker is located on the right side of the entrance to the hotel. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: Piazza della Rotonda 63, Roma, Lazio 00186, Italy. Touch for directions.
Regionally, it is in Europe, the European Union, the Schengen Area, a coastal Mediterranean country, and the Western World. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Roman Empire.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Pietro Mascagni (here, next to this marker); Lodovico Ariosto (here, next to this marker); Piazza della Rotonda (here, next to this marker); Il Municipio di Buenos Aires (a few steps from this marker); Rione III Colonna / Colonna District III (within shouting distance of this marker); The Trevi-Pantheon Route (within shouting distance of this marker); Hotel Pantheon (within shouting distance of this marker); Pantheon (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Roma.
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