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Rome
Hotel Massimo D'Azeglio , a four star hotel in Rome, has a
long and colorful history.
In 1875, Maurizio Bettoja bought the ground floor of the building where Hotel Massimo D'Azeglio currently stands, which at the time housed a long-established restaurant. Maurizio Bettoja's son Angelo had a feeling that it would be an ideal location for a hotel. After hiring a manager and staff, he bought the rest of the building and transformed it into Hotel Massimo D'Azeglio. Since then, the hotel has welcomed guests of all nationalities into a building that - in spite of its many renovations - has been able to hold onto its late nineteenth century atmosphere and style. The main façade has kept the same look as it had under King Umberto, while its interiors have undergone many changes.
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Hotel Massimo D'Azeglio's many guests have included
the King of Serbia, the ace aviator Francesco Baracca, Benito Mussolini,
General Diaz, Louis Armstrong, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Fausto Coppi
and Mascagni, among others. An important collection of prints and
paintings representing those people who were so important during
the Risorgimento (the Italian unification movement) hang in the lobby,
conference rooms, bar and restaurant. Near the bar, in the spacious ground floor lobby, there is an autograph of Cavour and a self-portrait of D'Azeglio along with three of his other drawings. |
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The Breakfast Rooms of
the Bettoja Hotels Group welcome their guests to start
the day right from 6:30 am to 10:30 am with an international
breakfast buffet offering a variety of cereals, fresh fruits
and juices, freshly baked pastries, as well as an assortment
of cold meats and cheeses. The beauty of the breakfast hall at the Hotel Mediterraneo is exceptionally lovely, where home-made bread is baked daily and cut fresh to order, and offers even breakfast salads, a particular breakfast favorite of our Asian visitors. The hall is spacious and luminous, elegant and refined with predominant colors of the sea which compliment the theme of this room; decorated with tritons and mermaid figureheads in carved oak with two large chandeliers mounted with lanterns which resemble those of a ship. |
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Hotel Massimo D'Azeglio's
breakfast room, presided over by a marble bust of Umberto I and
in the dining room one can find other prints, tapestries and
paintings of the Risorgimento period. A hotel which offers charm and elegance in a historic dwelling, where history is witnessed through epoch drawings. |
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