Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Leon's Place, Rome
Facts in brief
Official star rating 4-Star Superior
Location On Via Venti Settembre, a few steps from Porta Pia.
Annual opening All year
Closest airport Rome Fiumicino
Distance from airport 40 minutes by car
Closest railway station Roma Termini
Distance from railway station 12 minute on foot
Hotel facilities and services
Visionnaire Café restaurant and bar, internal garden and courtyard, spa and wellness centre with hot tub, sauna, and Turkish bath, Technogym fitness room, massage services on request, 24hr front desk, concierge service, tour and ticket assistance, room service, dry cleaning and laundry service, luggage storage, valet parking, airport shuttle, and free Wi-Fi.
Complimentary
Wi-Fi, spa and wellness centre, and Technogym fitness room.
Out and about nearby
Via Venti Settembre is one of Rome's most historically layered streets, and the hotel is ideally placed to explore it on foot. Porta Pia — the gateway in the Aurelian Walls completed by Michelangelo for Pope Pius IV, and the site of the 1870 breach that completed Italian unification — is just steps from the hotel. A short walk along the same street leads to Santa Maria della Vittoria, the Baroque church housing Bernini's celebrated sculpture The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, and the Moses Fountain on Piazza San Bernardo. The Villa Borghese gardens and the Galleria Borghese, with its outstanding collection of works by Bernini, Caravaggio, and Raphael, are around a 10 minute walk away, as is the famous Via Veneto. The Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, and the remarkably preserved Pantheon are all within a 25 minute walk, and the Colosseum is reachable on foot in around 30 minutes or via a short metro ride. For day trips, Tivoli — home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Villa d'Este and Hadrian's Villa — is approximately one hour from Rome by regional train from Termini, and the archaeological site of Ostia Antica, often compared to Pompeii, is just 30 minutes by train.
Sports nearby
Cycling
Everything was extremely well organised.Mr P, May 2025
From about
Holiday Code EXH46387
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Leon's Place, Rome
Palazzo Fabi Altini, the 19th century aristocratic building that is home to Leon's Place, sits on Via Venti Settembre in the historic centre of Rome, close to the main embassies and government buildings and with Porta Pia visible from its doorstep. The palazzo was carefully restored when the hotel opened in 2008, and the result is an interior that makes an immediate impression — the majestic central salon is anchored by a large black velvet swing suspended from a crystal and fabric chandelier, with imposing drapes, considered lighting, and surfaces adorned with decorative objects giving the common areas a neo-gothic character. The hand-painted internal courtyard garden, its floor depicting soft pink clouds across a cornflower blue sky and furnished with pieces from Italian brand Pedrali, is particularly appealing for aperitifs and light meals in spring and summer. The 56 rooms are dressed in pearl-grey or black-and-white tones with fresco-style detailing and Carrara marble bathrooms throughout; many have private terraces or French balconies overlooking Via Venti Settembre or the palazzo's courtyard. The Visionnaire Café serves Italian cuisine across lunch and dinner, and the cocktail bar — with mirrored walls reflected in the mosaic counter — is one of the city's more striking design interiors. Complimentary access to the spa, with hot tub, sauna, and Turkish bath, and a Technogym fitness room round out the facilities.
Room descriptions
Leon's Place has 56 rooms across five floors, each with Wi-Fi, adjustable air-conditioning, Carrara marble bathroom, 42-inch LCD TV with Sky channels, in-room safe, tea and coffee maker, minibar, hairdryer, bathrobe and slippers, and soundproofing.
Everything was extremely well organised.Mr P, May 2025
From about
Holiday Code EXH46387
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Leon's Place, Rome
The journey and how you get there
For a holiday to Leon's Place, fly into Rome Fiumicino, approximately 30km away. The Leonardo Express train runs every 20 minutes from Fiumicino Airport to Roma Termini, taking around 32 minutes, from where the hotel is a 12 minute walk. The hotel can arrange private transfers for a surcharge. A car is not necessary for exploring Rome — the hotel is well placed for walking or using the city's metro network.
Additional information
Children: Leon's Place can accommodate families, with additional beds or cots available on request and child-friendly meals available.
Everything was extremely well organised.Mr P, May 2025
From about
Holiday Code EXH46387
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke hotel holidays to Leon's Place, Rome
About Rome
An Expressions tailor-made holiday to Rome is a trip to the capital city of Italy and, as the capital city of the Roman Empire, a place which was widely regarded as the birth place of western civilisation. The city has a unique atmosphere of any in Italy, due to its huge wealth of sites to see, dating back not just from the Roman era, but from mediaeval and Renaissance periods as well and you could spend a lifetime visiting all the historical and architectural sites the city has to offer. Most visitors come to Rome to see the foundations of the Roman Empire in the form of the Colosseum, The Forum Romanum and the Circus Maximus, to name but a few. However, visitors nearly always allow time for a visit to the Vatican Museum and the Basilica of St Peter, even if they choose not to visit any other non-Roman historical sites! The variety of places to visit in Rome can be over whelming and it is best to plan in advance what you wish to see within the time you have and stick to it, rather than planning whilst you are there. The historic centre is perfectly manageable on foot as it is in fact quite compact. However, there is a comprehensive metro system that runs around the historic centre, rather than through it (for obvious reasons), with its intersection at the main Rome Termini station. The two lines of the metro are easy to navigate and can be a swift and inexpensive way of reaching monuments or museums which are further away from each other.
Highlights of Rome
If the monuments, museums and historical sites become too overwhelming then Rome is also the perfect place for a spot of retail therapy, particularly shoes and clothes. The Apian way just outside the city is where a large proportion of the Roman catacombs are, as well as the baths of Caracalla. There are also numerous famous gardens in and around Rome namely the Borghese Gardens, The Gardens of Villa Doria Pamphili, Villa Torlonia, Villa Ada and the Park of Aqueducts.
Cultural highlights of Rome
The Colosseum, The Forum, The Pantheon, Circus Maximus, Domus Aurea, Trajan’s Market, The Vatican Museum, The Basilica of St Peter, The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, The Capitoline Museum, The Borghese Gallery.
Festivals in Rome
The Estate Romana is a festival which lasts throughout the summer months and encompasses many cultural activities including concerts and street performances. The Noantri Festival is at the beginning of July and has its roots in early Christianity. The statue of the Vergine del Carmine is carried through the streets of the Trastevere district of Rome and there is much feasting and merriment. There are numerous arts and antiques fairs which take place in the autumn in Rome and the city attracts a wide range of musicians and art collections throughout the year.
Gastronomy in Rome
The gastronomy of Rome is hearty but simple, based on numerous ways of cooking fresh vegetables, particularly artichokes and courgettes (zucchini), salt cod, hearty soups and meat sauces and various pasta shapes and tomato sauces, particularly using garlic and chilli. The most famous wines of the area are the Frascati wines, however the area to the south also produces excellent Cesanese wines.
