Hotel San Anselmo stands near the top of the Aventine, a hill that empties after dark, and ROMEO Roma is on residential Via di Ripetta, with its pool, spa, garden and bar kept for guests. The Inn at the Roman Forum sits on a Monti cul-de-sac that goes silent at night, and Donna Camilla Savelli behind a wall above Trastevere.
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Rome's centre is small enough that the address buys you a street rather than time: the Pantheon is 25 minutes on foot from the Colosseum, and the whole historic centre is about forty minutes end to end. So quiet comes down to what the street outside does after dark, and the famous addresses are the loud ones. Portrait sellers and restaurant touts keep Piazza Navona busy late, Trastevere's lanes are loud late into the night, above all at weekends, Via Labicana carries buses and scooters past the Colosseum, and the square at the heart of Monti keeps its crowd until late.
The quiet addresses empty at night: two hills, the Aventine and the Gianicolo, and a few central side streets that go quiet early, such as residential Via di Ripetta and a pedestrian lane in Monti. The hills are quiet by design and mean a climb home after dinner; the side streets keep the evening a short walk away. Choose on that.
Up on the Aventine the evening goes quiet early. Hotel San Anselmo is a free-standing villa on Piazza Sant'Anselmo, near the top of the hill, facing the Benedictine church and college across a small square, with monastery walls along one side. It has 34 rooms and no restaurant, so no dinner trade comes through the door; the small bar off the hall closes at midnight, and a drink can go out to the terrace or down into the garden. Breakfast is included, served in the garden among the palms and citrus trees when it is warm, or brought to the room at no extra charge.
The silence comes with a hill. Dinner is a walk: six minutes along the ridge to Apuleius, or seven to nine down into Testaccio.
The room to book
Double
16 m²
At 16 square metres it is the first tier with antique furniture and, in some rooms, a small balcony, which on a hill this quiet is where the evening goes.
Via di Ripetta, the westernmost of the three streets that leave Piazza del Popolo, is a residential street that quietens early, and the evening noise stays on the piazza and the Corso. Inside, the hotel keeps its evenings to itself. Il Cortile in the garden, Il Bar off the lobby, the Sisley Paris spa and the pool that runs out into the garden are open to hotel guests only, and only the Alain Ducasse dining room takes outside bookings, save a public aperitivo on the roof on Thursday and Sunday evenings. The result is a five-star with no scene; the complaint that recurs from guests is the quiet itself, which here is the point. Of the 74 rooms and suites, the Deluxe, Premier and Junior Suite categories each come facing either the inner courtyard or the street, so the quieter side is yours to ask for.
The room to book
Deluxe
up to 41 m²€1,360 a night
Up to 41 square metres in walnut, with a bath and a double sink, and sold facing either the inner courtyard or the street: ask for the courtyard.
Monti is one of Rome's livelier quarters, and the bars around Piazza della Madonna dei Monti are four minutes from the door. Via degli Ibernesi is not part of that. The lane is cobbled, closed to traffic and ends in a flight of steps on the Forum side of the quarter, and after dark it goes silent. The house is small, around fourteen rooms, with no restaurant: the top-floor lounge pours an aperitivo from five to eight and closes at eleven. After that the building is yours, including the Roman cryptoporticus off the lobby, whose door stays open all night. You get Monti's wine bars and trattorias when you want them, and a silent lane when you do not.
The room to book
Junior Suite
30 to 35 m²€888 a night
A king canopy bed, a sitting area and a Jacuzzi bath in 30 to 35 square metres, the size step in the main house, for evenings spent in rather than out.
Trastevere is where Rome goes out, and its lanes stay loud until late. Donna Camilla Savelli is close enough to use that and far enough to sleep: it sits behind a wall on Via Garibaldi, where the street leaves the lanes and climbs towards the Gianicolo, and the quarter's noise stays below. Inside is the convent Borromini began in 1642, with a cloister of arcades and a garden of citrus trees where breakfast is laid in good weather. The Deluxe rooms are the nuns' former cells, and some look over the cloister garden.
One thing to plan for: footsteps carry along the hard-floored corridors, so ask for a room away from the stairs and service routes. Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere is six minutes downhill.
The room to book
Deluxe Room
20 m²€411 a night
Made from the nuns' cells on the first and second floors, with period furniture, and some look over the cloister garden; rooms are assigned at random, so ask for the garden side in writing.
Via del Velabro, by the Arch of Janus, empties completely after dark, and every Rhinoceros Roma apartment has a full kitchen for nights in. Take one a floor or two below the roof terrace, which has music on Thursdays and Sundays.
Bvlgari Hotel Roma is in Campo Marzio, a shopping district that goes quiet when the shops shut. Ask for a Deluxe Room on Via della Frezza, the lane side, away from the bar terraces.
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The hills, and the streets that empty after dark. The Aventine, a hill of villas, embassies and convents, is silent at night, and Hotel San Anselmo is near its top. Donna Camilla Savelli is on the Gianicolo slope above Trastevere, behind a wall that keeps the noise of the lanes below. In the centre, Campo Marzio goes quiet when the shops close, and ROMEO Roma is on its residential Via di Ripetta. The Velabro, at the foot of the Palatine, empties completely, and Rhinoceros Roma is there.
Is Trastevere noisy at night?
In the lanes, yes. Trastevere is the quarter Rome goes out in, with trattorias, bars and clubs, and the noise lasts until late, above all at weekends. The quiet way to stay there is uphill. Donna Camilla Savelli is behind a wall on Via Garibaldi, where the street climbs from the lanes towards the Gianicolo, and the noise of the quarter stays down the hill, while Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere is six minutes' walk away and Antica Pesa, a Roman dining room since 1922, three.
Is Monti a quiet place to stay?
It depends on the street. Monti is one of Rome's livelier quarters: in the evening Piazza della Madonna dei Monti, the square with the fountain, fills with people having a drink, while two lanes away it is quiet. The Inn at the Roman Forum is four minutes from that square, on a cobbled pedestrian cul-de-sac on the Forum side of the quarter that goes silent after dark. You keep Monti's wine bars and trattorias a short walk away, and Cavour station on Metro line B is seven minutes uphill.
How far is dinner from Rome's quiet hilltop hotels?
Close, and mostly downhill. From Hotel San Anselmo on the Aventine, Apuleius is six minutes along the ridge, and the Testaccio trattorias, Trattoria Perilli and Felice a Testaccio among them, are seven to nine minutes down. The walk back is a climb, and taxis come up to the square. From Donna Camilla Savelli on the Gianicolo slope, Antica Pesa is three minutes away, Trattoria Da Lucia five and Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere six, and Donna Camilla Savelli also has its own restaurant, Contempo.
Is there a quiet hotel in Rome with a pool and spa?
Yes: ROMEO Roma, the one hotel on this list with both. Its pool starts indoors and runs out into the garden, ending on a glass floor above an excavated Roman workshop, and the Sisley Paris spa beside it opens every day. Both are for hotel guests only, like the garden restaurant and the bar, so the building stays calm in the evening, and Via di Ripetta outside is a residential street that quietens early.
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