Not to be confused with the Hotel Victoria

Postcard detail of Hotel de Rome

Advertising designAlready Hotel Victoria and de Rome, it worked, in Corso Cavallotti, until the early seventies of the last century.


Hotel Vittoria RomaIt was certainly in operation at the end of the 19th  century. It had 75 rooms and a good park.


Hotel Vittoria Roma from the back gardenNowadays it has been transformed and modernized as the seat of the State Police, I.N.P.S. (National Social Security Institute) and Civil Judge offices.


The replacing building of the Hotel today

Hotel Vittoria Roma in 1930s designIn the Thirties, among its employees, Dorando Pietri, the famous and unlucky marathon runner, who was the protagonist, despite himself, of the London Olympics in 1908, where he was disqualified by a controversial disqualification which cost him the gold medal.


(source: Una Stagione lunga cent'anni, by Bruno Monticone)