From its amazing ivy façade, this magnificent "Maison" will immerse you in a world of charm. The Bio Hotel Raphaël is a true art museum: paintings, lithographs, sculptures, antiquarian artifacts and a precious collection of Picasso ceramics and Mayan art can be admired throughout the lobby.
 
Be the first to discover the two new executive floors, modern and original, signed by the American architect, Richard Meier. The terrace Bramante above the rooftops is waiting for you to enjoy our high quality and refined cuisine while enjoying the magnificent view of the eternal city.

The Restaurant

The organic, vegetarian and vegan restaurant Mataer Terrae welcomes you!

Have you read "vegetarian" and you are not inspired? Don’t worry about it, we will not fill your plate with tofu or seaweed! We will instead delight your palate with natural seasonal products and unique recipes based on art, creativity and innovation!

Their strenght?

Certainly the choice of our Managing Director Roberto Vannoni to open the doors of the Mater Terrae restaurant solely to organic and seasonal products.

Let beauty be your host

Feel at home surrounded by works of art in the heart of the superb Rome, a pleasure reserved for only the most refined travelers: those who elect the charm and discrete luxury of the Bio Hotel Raphael ***** L.

It's all here in the centro storico of Rome, a few steps from Piazza Navona amidst some of the world's most admired monuments: the Pantheon, St. Peter's and the Vatican, the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps and the Colosseum.

We are right in the center of one of the most important world culinary cultures: the Mediterranean. Countries with a moderate climate, full of plants that grow wherever, of cereals that have been diversified within the centuries, fruits that have the same name but are very different among them. Do you know how many subspecies of apricots grow on the Vesuvius, only 150 kilometers at the south of Rome? More than 100.

Because of this reason, our breakfast has all the colors and the tastes of our fruit, of our cereals grown on the hills, lowlands and mountains, of the different types of sweets and breads of Italy: a country that represents 0,2 percent of the emerged lands, but which has a history and also a gastronomy, different for almost each one of its around eight thousand City Halls. And it is also for this reason that we suggest you to choose Mediterranean for your breakfast: vegetable proteins, tasty fruits and vegetables produced in our country.
But we also propose you this in the name of a vision, of a sweeter relationship with the Planet. More meat means a great consumption of ground, a great impact on the climate, controlled animal breedings as industries and pollution. Your personal choice also implies a small gesture that can reward the palate and relieve our pressure on our planet: try, if you like, the perfumes and the tastes of the Mediterranean.The chef recommends it.

And then, the bio-agriculture. Pesticides and chemical fitomedicines that conventional agriculture uses in the fields, hurt us: they have side-effects which have been proved by the scientific organisms of the whole world, making us more prone to tumors and other illnesses. For this reason, their use is strongly controlled by the States and by international organisms. Strongly, but not enough. We can do without pesticides, as it has been demonstrated by the success of biological and biodinamic agriculture in a country like Italy, where more than 11 percent of the fields are cultivated with natural methods. Another important step towards the respect for the Planet.

Chemical agriculture contributes in a 7 percent to the formation of the gases that alter the climate.

So we have chosen to offer biological and biodinamic food to our guests both, on our breakfast buffet and in our vegetarian restaurant. We are not the only ones: biological and biodinamic Italian cuisine is one of the most appreciated in the world, because it has been cultivated respecting very strict rules and also because it shows the tastes and rich differences of our country.

Are we too much proud of it? We kindly invite you to taste identify the tastes and smells. Then, it will be a pleasure for us talk together about it.

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