Interested in a vacation home in Rome worthy of nobility? The Villa Aurora built by the ultra-powerful Boncompagni Ludovisi family complete with ceiling art painted by Caravaggio has just gone on the market. Even after a discount, the price is a little over $400-million and there’s a long list of millions of dollars worth of renovations it would need immediately.
If that’s out of your budget, a room at a completely restored building across the street that was part of the same family’s holdings is a comparative bargain. And a stay at the recently opened Sofitel Roma Villa Borghese will make you feel like nobility.
The building rose in the nineteenth century as part of the estate of a super-rich family that included a Pope. The Ludovisis intermarried with Italy’s most powerful dynasties and royalty abroad. With so many friends visiting Rome who needed a place to stay worthy of their status, this seven-story classical building was the Ludovisis’ palatial guest house.
Read it all in the Cruisington Times