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Airelles Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle
Mansart's 1681 limestone buildings inside Versailles grounds, restored strictly to 1788 royal inventories.
Araya Totoan
Continuous family hospitality since 1639, preserving feudal Maeda clan chambers and Rosanjin calligraphy.
Asaba Ryokan
Continuously run by one family across ten generations since 1484 in Shuzenji.
Ashford Castle
An Anglo-Norman fortress from 1228, expanded by the Guinness family into an estate.
Cliveden House
A Grade I listed Italianate mansion shaped by royal visits and political scandal.
Danieli, Venezia, A Four Seasons Hotel
A fourteenth-century Gothic palace built for Doge Enrico Dandolo that has welcomed travelers since 1822.
Fairmont Banff Springs
An 1888 Canadian Pacific Railway landmark with baronial limestone turrets rising within Banff National Park.
Fairmont Le Château Frontenac
An 1893 railway castle with copper turrets that hosted Allied wartime conferences.
Fairmont Peace Hotel
1929 Sassoon House Art Deco icon with a green copper pyramid roof, Lalique glass, and on-site museum.
Four Seasons Hotel Firenze
A 1473 Renaissance palazzo preserving original wall frescoes and mythological bas-relief friezes.
Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria
Three nineteenth-century cliffside villas standing above Roman villa ruins, featuring Enrico Caruso's preserved 1921 suite.
Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois
Neoclassical 1844 palace by Amadeus Merian set on river inn origins from 1026.
Grand Hotel Vesuvio
A waterfront grande dame since 1882 where Enrico Caruso lived, preserving his piano in suite 531.
Hiiragiya Ryokan
In family hands since 1818, hosting Japanese imperial royalty and novelist Yasunari Kawabata.
Hôtel de Crillon
Commissioned in 1758 by Louis XV, preserving landmarked neoclassical colonnades and historic gilded first-floor reception salons.
Hotel de Paris Monte-Carlo
An 1864 Belle Époque palace holding royal wedding dinners and four-hundred-thousand-bottle wine cellars.
Hotel del Coronado
The 1888 Victorian landmark preserves red turrets, stained glass, and its Some Like It Hot setting.
Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc
Founded in 1870, welcoming painters from Monet to Picasso across fifteen decades.
Hôtel du Palais Biarritz - The Unbound Collection by Hyatt
The Atlantic coast's only official Palace hotel, preserving Eugénie's 1854 imperial seaside legacy.
Hotel Grande Bretagne
Nineteenth-century landmark that served as wartime Allied headquarters and welcomed generations of dignitaries.
Hotel Imperial, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Vienna
An 1863 neo-Renaissance palace commissioned for Duke Philipp of Württemberg on the Ringstraße.
Hotel Sacher Vienna
Founded in 1876, carrying an unbroken family-run confectionery legacy opposite the Opera.
Il Salviatino
A 15th-century villa with preserved frescoes, once hosting literary salons for Salvador Dalí.
Inkaterra La Casona
A sixteenth-century national monument raised over elite Incan military training grounds.
Kulm Hotel St. Moritz
Birthplace of alpine winter tourism since 1856, linked to the Cresta Run and two Winter Olympic Games.
La Colombe d'Or Hotel and Restaurant
Twentieth-century masters including Picasso and Matisse traded original canvases for board.
La Mamounia
Centuries-old royal orchards and Medina ramparts frame an enduring palace of Moroccan craft.
Le Meurice Paris
A storied 1835 address nicknamed the Hotel of Kings, hosting Picasso's wedding banquet and Salvador Dalí.
Le Negresco
A 1913 Belle Époque monument housing six thousand artworks beneath a pink dome.
Londolozi Game Reserve
Four generations of Varty family stewardship along the Sand River since 1926.
Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok
Original 1876 Victorian Authors' Wing preserving turn-of-the-century architecture alongside historic suites named after visiting literary icons.
Monte Rosa Hotel
Headquarters for pioneering mountaineers and geologists who launched the golden age of Alpinism.
Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel
A Victorian landmark dating to 1899, painted blush pink in 1918 celebrating peace.
Radisson Collection Royal Hotel Copenhagen
Arne Jacobsen created the world's first design hotel in 1960, keeping original time capsule Room 606 intact.
