Tmark Hotel Vaticano 0.05 miles away Rome 2.9 miles to city center [See Map] 8.3 Great(1343 reviews) ... 4.0-star Hotel Class ...

Staying near Vatican City used to mean settling for a ho-hum hotel, but those days are long gone, thanks to the compound-like Villa Agrippina, part of Spanish-owned Meliá Hotels International.

Near the hotel, I found the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome's oldest church, in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere. I stayed for a short, informal service which felt like such a special thing ...

Rome is one of the most popular destinations in Europe, made even more attractive by its proximity to Vatican City, an independent city-state. Vatican City, though a country on its own, is smaller ...