Casinò di Sanremo
The French architect Eugène Ferret won a competition to build Sanremo a Kursaal and opened it in January 1905 — a Liberty palace of gaming and concerts, the…
The French architect Eugène Ferret won a competition to build Sanremo a Kursaal and opened it in January 1905 — a Liberty palace of gaming and concerts, the…
Montecatini’s grandest hotel began in 1870 as a promise — La Pace, peace — and became, after 1901, a Liberty showcase: Bernardini’s architecture and Galileo…
Roncegno’s Palace Hotel drew Central Europe’s aristocracy to a Trentino valley for the iron-and-arsenic cure. Destroyed in the First World War and rebuilt in…
Sciacca gave Sicily’s oldest cure a modern home between 1928 and 1938 — a Liberty thermal complex in a hillside park, crowned by the Grand Hotel delle Terme…
Levico’s Grand Hotel Imperial went up around 1900, when a Berlin company turned a Trentino valley into an Austro-Hungarian spa. The name still fits: it was…
Garibaldi Burba’s Palazzo della Fonte opened in 1913 above the springs of Fiuggi, a Liberty grand hotel built for the European cure-takers who made the town…
Giovenale designed Fiuggi’s Grand Hotel as a single building for a single purpose — to entertain the spa: hotel, theatre and gaming rooms under one Liberty…
The hotel that gave Salsomaggiore its skyline opened in 1901 to Luigi Broggi’s Liberty design, then grew in the 1920s into a fantasy of Moorish and Japanese…
Giuseppe Boni’s 1911 hotel carries Liberty ironwork designed by Alessandro Mazzucotelli — the Milanese master who taught Italian Art Nouveau how to bend…
Squadrelli’s Grand Hotel went up in twenty months and opened in 1904, a Liberty palace built to put a small Bergamo valley on the map of European luxury. It…