Over the years, many celebrities of culture, art and entertainment were hosted here: Gabriele D'Annunzio and Luigi Pirandello; directors and actors like Alfred Hitchcock, Vittorio de Sica and Alberto Sordi; royalty members and heads of State, like the Emperor Hirohito, the Princess of Spain and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi; politicians, like a Nobel Laureate Yitzhak Rabin and Simon Peres; personas of culture, like a Nobel Laureate Rita Levi Montalcini, Rudolf Nureyev and Carla Fracci.
