The history of the complex of buildings that host the hotel began in the second century B.C. It was an ancient inn where imported wines, oil and garum were served. It was so well known that its owner, Veneteia Maxima, was allowed to become the owner of her own tomb, which was something more unique than rare for a woman at the time. Its tombstone is preserved in the lapidarium of the Benedictine Abbey of Santa Maria in Sylvis, a hundred meters from the current hotel, joined by an internal courtyard to the kitchen of the renowned restaurant Abate Ermanno.