It was 1963 when Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni filmed here the Roman episode "Mara" of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: set in a top-floor apartment overlooking Piazza Navona, directed by Vittorio De Sica and produced by Carlo Ponti. Two years later, in 1965, the film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. At Navona49 you don't just stay in the heart of Rome: you sleep inside a page of cinema history.
De Sica chose this view over Rome's Baroque drawing room for one of the most celebrated sequences in Italian cinema. The same light, the same rooftops, the same square you see from our windows framed two absolute icons — Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
An Oscar, a square, one address: Navona49.
Today those rooms are the suites of Navona49, and that terrace is our rooftop. Book and breathe, from the very same perspective, the charm that enchanted the cinema: a glass at sunset where De Sica called "action", with Piazza Navona at your feet.
Book your sceneImages from the film "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" (1963), directed by Vittorio De Sica — © respective rights holders. Shown for illustrative and historical purposes.
Stay where cinema history met Rome's most beautiful square.
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