AX Palazzo Capua‘s five suites aren’t numbered. Each one carries the name of someone who actually lived in the building.
The palace was built in the early 1800s by Maltese banker Biagio Tagliaferro, who called it Selma Hall. It later passed to Carlo de Borbon, Prince of Capua, and his wife Penelope Caroline Smyth, whose title gave the building its current name. Their first son, Francesco, was born inside the palace, and one suite now carries his name.
The building still keeps its original Neoclassical facade and columns, along with corridors lined in period artefacts and antiques from that era.
Facilities live next door. Guests use the spa, indoor pool, steam room and fitness centre at sister hotel AX The Palace, plus the 8th-floor outdoor pool at AX The Victoria, which looks over Sliema.
