Stendhal stayed here when the palazzo was already one of Rome's grand hotels. Two centuries later it is the first Orient Express hotel, a few steps from the Pantheon.
CNT Hot List 2026. The first Orient Express hotel, opened in April 2025 in a seventeenth-century palazzo on Piazza della Minerva, a few steps from the Pantheon. Stendhal and George Sand stayed here when it was one of the city's grand hotels, and Hugo Toro has since redesigned its 93 rooms in mineral tones and Rosso Verona marble.
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