History

When Fiuggi reinvented itself as a spa in the early twentieth century, it needed a hotel grand enough to hold a European clientele. Garibaldi Burba — the architect who also designed the town’s original Liberty thermal building — drew the Palazzo della Fonte on the slope above the springs.

Inaugurated in 1913, the hotel set the standard for the resort: a long Liberty front, terraced gardens and decorative cycles by the painter Silvio Galimberti. It drew aristocrats, politicians and, later, film stars, and remained one of the most celebrated grand hotels of central Italy.

Burba’s original thermal building lower down was demolished between 1967 and 1969 and rebuilt by Luigi Moretti; the Palazzo della Fonte, by contrast, survives, restored and still in use as a five-star hotel.