This building started life in 1930 as the headquarters of the Central Institute of Savings Bank, built at the start of the Great Depression in an opulent Italian Renaissance style with Cipollino marble floors and onyx panels throughout. The bank closed sometime in the 1990s, and the building sat without a clear future until Boscolo Hotels bought and restored it.
Al Rayyan Tourism Investment Company acquired the property in 2015 and reopened it in 2017 as the Aleph, the first Curio Collection property in Rome. The hotel’s spa now occupies the bank’s old underground vault, and gilded bees, a nod to the Barberini family crest found throughout Rome, still decorate the entrance archway. It sits a ten-minute walk from the Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps and has been a Historic Hotels Worldwide member since 2018.