AMICI MIEI JUNIOR SUITE WITH FRESCOES

In this room, in 1975, Mario Monicelli decided to shoot one of the most significant scenes of the film Amici miei, in which a disbelieving Ugo Tognazzi, in the role of Count Mascetti, enters and finds La Titti, his long‑standing lover, in bed with another woman. At that point, to justify herself, the woman mutters one of the film’s unforgettable lines: ‘Didn’t I swear to you that you were the only man in my life?’

Monicelli was not the only director to choose the Porta Rossa: after him, Dario Argento and Philip Haas also shot films there—The Stendhal Syndrome and Up at the Villa, respectively, the latter based on a novel by Somerset Maugham. Even the Carmelite nun Thérèse of Lisieux stopped at the Porta Rossa during her journey to Rome, where she had been summoned by the Pope.