My life changed when I became a Host. 

We all have a dream in the drawer, an ambitious project or a simple plan “B” that one day we would like to be able to turn into reality. 

Go around the world by bike. Quit your job and open a chiringuito on the beach. Moving to the Moon.

It doesn’t matter how small or big it is, our heart is able to give space to dreams of any size, even the most cumbersome or those that seem impossible to achieve.

Among the many dreams kept in my “suitcase od desires” there has always been that of carrying out a project linked to experiential tourism.

Obviously, as it often happens with dreams, the details of “what” and “how” have remained in my head quite confused for many years…

But then life put me in front of a series of changes, which gave me time to think, but above all it gave me the opportunity and the courage to open the suitcase of desires, trying to realize my little dream.

Closed a door, I finally opened “Giusti Mansion“.

Becoming a Host was much more difficult and complicated than repositioning myself professionally as an Experience Teller, even if the two businesses have various points of contact.

The first difficulty was finding the right location.

Although Rome is quite a lively city from a real estate point of view, my research focused from the beginning on two neighborhoods that I love, Rione Monti and Trastevere.

Two very different locations, but very attractive from a tourist point of view. 

So, among hundreds of appointments, endless online search and exhausting visits, in the end I found myself at a crossroad, but not the classic one.

The Trastevere crossroad I am talking about is rather a very particular fork in the shape of an inverted Y that characterizes Vicolo del Bologna.

This is where I opened Giusti Mansion.

A very special gallery suite set up inside one of the traditional shop houses of the past, where craftsmen once lived and worked.

A small corner of my heart that I have furnished with family memories and with all those objects that express my passion for travel, design and vintage.

I don’t offer simple accommodation, but a new type of “homespitality“.

I have traveled to all latitudes and longitudes of the globe, visited and lived in many different places, but there is one thing that as a tourist I have always looked for when setting foot in another country: to feel at home. 

It is a feeling of familiarity and well-being that has nothing to do with the physical place in which we find ourselves, but with the particular emotions we feel when we enter a living space and immediately feel safe, at ease, welcomed, and pampered as if we were part of the same family

This is the “homespitality” experience that I have decided to let all my guests experience, establishing a family relationship with each of them right from the first contact during the booking phase. 

Because the best place to stay and return is what we call “home”.

The advice of my special neighbour: Ferdinando.

Ferdinando was the first person I met in Trastevere.

I was at the front door of the “Giusti Mansion” when this man with bright blue eyes and very elegant and expressive features greeted me while walking with his faithful friends, Pocho and Lilly.

Impossible not to be struck by his innate empathy and his brilliant personality.

This is how we became friends, by chance, even if chance does not exist and there is always a reason why we meet certain people.

Ferdinando is not only my neighbour, but also the creator of StoreMe in Trastevere, a multifunctional space open to tourists to whom he offers various types of Conciergerie services, from luggage storage to management of transfers, from booking of restaurants to tourist assistance.

Having Ferdinando next to “Giusti Mansion” is, let’s face it, a great added value, not only because his services are also essential for my guests, but above all because since I started doing this business I have learned a lot of things from him and from his way of approaching and relating to people.

He revealed his secret to me himself in a few simple words:

I consider those who come to me guests, not customers.

You can see his interview on my Youtube channel.

I can finally travel without paying any ticket.

You don’t need to get away from home to have an eventful and international life.

Being a host is in fact giving me the opportunity to get in touch with different worlds and cultures, to meet new people and to make part of the journey with them.

All my guests bring, in addition to their luggage, a baggage of life, experiences, emotions and incredible stories, which they often wish to share during their stay.

Barbara, my first guest, for example, told me her passion for photography that brings her to travel around Italy to document the work activities within various prisons. Then there is the baggage of Toby, a New York artist with a special charm (not surprisingly he likes to call himself “the elegant beast” on social media) who came on vacation to Italy to make his fabulous leather creations known. Or the luggage of Annie and Philippe, a French couple. Annie ran a hospital in Greenland for years while Philippe worked in cinema, then running a farm in Normandy.

This week end you are all guests of “Giusti Mansion”.

Do you want to spend a different weekend, full of stories, memories and emotions?

I am waiting for you in Trastevere, to tell you something more about my new business and the magical place I am running now.

For the more curious I have prepared a small photographic tour on my Instagram and Facebook pages.

Welcome Home. Today is FRAday!