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Part II — Hotel Collections

Historical Hotels

Houses that had a history long before they became hotels.

Ideal for

Travellers for whom a stay is also an encounter with architectural history, craftsmanship and the memory of a place.

Editorial description

A historic hotel is not the same as an old hotel. What matters is not the year of construction, but whether the building tells a story of its own — as a palace, monastery, railway hotel, merchant's house or summer residence — and whether that story can still be felt in the way the hotel is run.

The best houses in this collection treat their heritage as an obligation, not as decoration. Frescoes, staircases, courtyards and proportions are preserved, while the technology, bathrooms and comforts are discreetly brought up to date. Restoration here is a permanent condition, not a one-off project.

This brings its own peculiarities. Rooms are rarely laid out alike, the line of the windows dictates the furnishings, and the room category shapes the stay more than the name of the hotel does. Anyone expecting identical floor plans will be disappointed; anyone looking for character will find it in exactly these details.

Within the Collection System, Historical Hotels stands for houses whose architectural and cultural substance shapes the stay — regardless of whether they belong to an international brand, a family or a foundation.

Selected houses
  • The Taj Mahal Palace, MumbaiOpened in 1903, older than the Gateway of India opposite — and still the social centre of the city.
  • Hôtel de Crillon, ParisAn eighteenth-century palace on the Place de la Concorde, reopened after a four-year restoration.
  • Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa, Baden-BadenIn operation since 1872, and the house from which one of Europe's oldest hotelier families set out.
  • Villa Igiea, PalermoAn Art Nouveau estate above the Gulf of Palermo, fully restored in 2021.
  • The Peninsula Hong KongOpened in 1928, and the benchmark for the grand Asian city hotel ever since.
  • Hotel Cipriani, VeniceSet on the Giudecca, with a garden that has no equal anywhere else in Venice.
The collection's philosophy Historical Hotels are for travellers who want not only to stay in a house but to read it — and who are prepared to accept historic proportions in return.
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