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Fully renovated in 2002, this regal 1906 building stands on fashionable Via Veneto. The spacious lobby leads to a vast lounge, with marble floors, stucco ceilings, crystal chandeliers, and early 19th-century Empire-style furniture of gilded wood, upholstered with red-and-cream fabrics. Guests include the rich and famous; corporate and government leaders, and well-traveled couples.

Family owned and operated, Atlante Garden Hotel is a smoke-free property that attracts guests seeking ready access to Vatican City. A small carpeted lobby with wall and ceiling mirrors and fresh flowers exemplifies the hotel's style and tranquility.

Hotel Atlante Star is set on a busy, tree-lined street. Glass doors open to a black-marble staircase which leads up to the reception area and bar. Decor includes dark colors, fabrics, and paintings of Roman antiquities; tables are fashioned of marble and wood. The hotel’s clientele is mostly tourists.

When Hotel Majestic opened in 1889, in a converted 18th-century palazzo, it was the first hotel on Via Veneto. Its yellow facade, curved to follow the street's contour, remains a landmark. A palazzo atmosphere is preserved in a lobby with high, molded ceilings and highly polished dark woods and in function rooms featuring original ceiling frescos by Domenico Bruschi.

The stark, neo-fascist marble façade belies the soft, velvet furnishings and wood detail inside the lobby and lounge. Guests step from the street, 200 metres from Termini station, through a revolving door to the reception desk and find marble busts of emperors and dignitaries from Rome’s ancient past perched on columns throughout the lobby area.

Guests enter the six-storey 1930s building and find a traditional wood-fronted reception desk and polished hardwood floors topped with Oriental rugs. Red leather club chairs and sofas offer seating in the lobby bar, while in the library located behind the lobby area white tufted leather sofas provide a quiet retreat to peruse complimentary newspapers or guidebooks.

Fresh flowers in dramatic arrangements brighten the expansive marble lobby. A shop just off the lobby sells designer leather goods and watches. The hotel welcomes a mix of international tourists (Japanese and Italian guests especially) and business travelers making use of the on-site conference facilities.

Business travelers and vacationing families are the typical guests of this hotel. The spacious, sunny lobby greets visitors with its wall of windows facing the street, burgundy-and-gold brocade couches, and gray marble floors.

Hotel Valadier stands on a quiet cobblestoned street, just off the Piazza del Popolo. The reception area has a marble floor and a lustrous black-marble desk. Adjoining the reception area is a lounge with black-leather armchairs and piano, drawing both guests and locals in the evening.