{"id":874,"date":"2026-09-13T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T09:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jolly-curie.194-164-198-4.plesk.page\/our-story\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:23:01","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolly-curie.194-164-198-4.plesk.page\/en\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was 1960 when Francesca Vaccari and her daughter Marialina decided to open a hotel in Rome&#8217;s elegant, residential Trieste district. They bought a building constructed in 1938, intending to turn it into a modern, refined hotel in an area full of embassies and representative offices, right opposite Villa Torlonia and close to the city&#8217;s historic centre.<\/p>\n<p>We are not a historically important hotel, but we are a hotel with a story: our grandparents, after opening and running a hotel and restaurant near Via Cavour from 1920 to 1960, decided to move to this elegant neighbourhood and open the first hotel in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the 1950s, Francesca and Marialina finally found the building they had been looking for: it had belonged to the Canadian Monks and, before the war, had been the studio of a German painter. They entrusted the architect Benni with renewing its style, giving the building a more modern look in keeping with the trends of the time. The hotel soon became a point of reference for the companies, embassies and welfare institutions of the area.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"is-portrait\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jolly-curie.194-164-198-4.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fenix-hotel-roma-edificio-1958.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage black-and-white postcard: the three-storey building that would become the Hotel Fenix, seen from the rain-soaked street\" width=\"1457\" height=\"1685\" \/><figcaption>The building in 1958, before it became the Hotel Fenix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1972 the hotel was extended with the construction of a second wing, designed by the architect Lorenzo Monardo, one of the first in Rome to design a building with an exposed reinforced-concrete structure. During the works, several paintings depicting allegorical scenes were discovered, probably by the same German painter: today they hang in the hotel&#8217;s common rooms and lounges.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-figure-pair\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jolly-curie.194-164-198-4.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fenix-hotel-roma-ingresso-storico.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage black-and-white photo: the entrance with the \u201chotel fenix\u201d sign and, behind it, the new concrete wing\" width=\"1508\" height=\"2000\" class=\"half\" \/><figcaption>The hotel entrance in the 1970s, with the new wing in the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jolly-curie.194-164-198-4.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fenix-hotel-roma-facciata-cemento-a-vista.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage black-and-white photo: the fa\u00e7ade of the second wing seen from below, with its rows of concrete balconies\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" class=\"half\" \/><figcaption>The exposed reinforced-concrete balconies of the second wing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jolly-curie.194-164-198-4.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fenix-hotel-roma-nuova-ala-giardino-1972.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage black-and-white photo: the hotel&#039;s second wing among the garden trees\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1508\" \/><figcaption>The second wing seen from the garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jolly-curie.194-164-198-4.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fenix-hotel-roma-hall-anni-70.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage colour photo: the lobby with purple chairs, a marble table with a vase of dried flowers and a large allegorical painting on the wall\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1483\" \/><figcaption>The lobby in the 1970s: on the wall, one of the paintings discovered during the works<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since 1960 the hotel has been run by the same family, following a tradition in which the women of the Vaccari family have always taken the lead. On 6 April 2020 the Hotel Fenix celebrated its 60th anniversary. Today the granddaughters run the hotel. Hotel Fenix Roma is a story written by women, expressed in attention to detail, in small thoughtful touches and in the welcome we reserve for our guests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 1960 when Francesca Vaccari and her daughter Marialina decided to open a hotel in Rome&#8217;s elegant, residential Trieste district. 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