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A building with a story. Once a palace, a monastery, a station.
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Brilliant execution. And we’re picky.
Hotel Cultia Dazaifu
Restored Edo and Meiji merchant residences, including a painter family's ancestral home.
Hotel d'Angleterre
Founded in 1755 and anchoring Kongens Nytorv, this neoclassical landmark balances regal heritage with its celebrated historic façade.
Hôtel d'Aubusson
A seventeenth-century private mansion preserving massive oak ceiling beams, Burgundy stone fireplaces, and historic Aubusson tapestries.
Hotel d'Inghilterra Roma - Starhotels Collezione
A sixteenth-century Torlonia palazzo welcoming guests since 1845, steeped in Grand Tour history and aristocratic character.
Hotel de Bourgtheroulde, Autograph Collection
A sixteenth-century mansion courtyard lined with carved stone Renaissance reliefs.
Hôtel de L'Abbaye Le Tronchet
Twelfth-century Benedictine abbey grounds classified as a historic monument with original stone walls.
Hôtel de la Cité Carcassonne - MGallery Collection
A 1909 neo-Gothic building by Léon Vassas, registered as a French historic monument.
Hotel de la Poste - Relais de Napoleon III Hotel
Emperor Napoleon III and Émile Zola sheltered in this eighteenth-century Ardennes coaching inn.
Hotel De La Poste D'avallon
A 1707 coaching inn with a protected facade, where Napoleon once lodged.
Hotel de Mar Gran Meliá - The Leading Hotels of the World - Adults only
A protected 1964 modernist landmark nicknamed El Chocolate, admired by Joan Miró from his nearby studio.
Hotel De Orangerie
A former fifteenth-century Carthusian convent, set directly along the Dijver canal.
Hotel de Pavie
Medieval convent foundations and an eighteenth-century wine merchant house anchor these restored blonde limestone quarters.
Hotel de Rome
Preserved cashier hall mosaics and steel vault doors anchor this 1889 bank headquarters.
Hotel de Russie
An 1818 neoclassical palazzo by Giuseppe Valadier where Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau stayed in 1917.
Hotel Del Parque
Guayaquil's 1891 charity hospital, moved and rebuilt on the Daule River.
Hotel Des Indes
An 1858 private city palace designed for lavish balls and state receptions.
Hôtel des Saints Pères
A 1658 residence built by Louis XIV's royal architect, preserving an original 1666 Versailles school ceiling fresco.
Hotel Die Sonne Frankenberg
Three restored sixteenth-century timbered houses joined beside the ten-towered Gothic town hall.
Hôtel Dieu Intercontinental Marseille
An eighteenth-century hospital monument designed by Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne with grand staircases and historic facade.
Hôtel du Couvent, Nice
Restored seventeenth-century Clarisse convent with stone cloisters, vaulted chambers, and terraced restanques.
Hotel du Grand Balcon
Room 32 preserves the 1930s quarters of airmail pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Hotel Du Jeu De Paume
Paris's last surviving 1634 royal tennis court preserves listed seventeen-meter timber roof trusses and original masonry.
Hôtel du Louvre
An 1855 Second Empire landmark where Camille Pissarro painted Parisian streetscape series from upper-floor windows.
Hôtel du Petit Moulin Paris | Le Marais
A listed seventeenth-century bakery building featuring a preserved black-and-gold shopfront facade and gilded salon ceilings.
Hotel Due Torri
A fourteenth-century Scaligeri palace where Mozart lodged during his 1770 Italian journey.
Hotel Dukes' Palace
The fifteenth-century ducal palace of Philip the Good, complete with restored neo-Gothic chapel.
Hotel Eden
An 1889 Beaux-Arts palazzo that introduced Rome to electric lighting, central heating, and the city's first hotel elevators.
Hôtel Eggers
A protected 1859 railway hotel resting on Gothenburg’s seventeenth-century bastion walls.
Hotel El Convento
A 1651 Carmelite convent preserved with three-foot clay walls and ironwood ceiling beams.
Hotel Elephant Weimar, Autograph Collection
A historic 1696 tavern site rebuilt in 1938, immortalized in Thomas Mann's writing.
Hotel Emblemático La Casa de los Naranjos
A protected 200-year-old Canarian manor house sheltering an orchard of thirty orange trees and historic library.
Hotel Emma
An 1894 brewhouse conversion preserving original machinery, named for pioneer executive Emma Koehler.
Hotel España
Modernisme masterwork from 1859 featuring Ramon Casas mermaid murals and Eusebi Arnau's sculpted alabaster fireplace.
Hotel Europäischer Hof Heidelberg
Opened in 1865 for castle visitors, retaining coffered ceilings and 1866 wood marquetry.
Hotel Fasano Salvador
Restored 1930s Art Deco headquarters of Bahia daily newspaper A Tarde.
Hotel Figueroa
A 1926 Spanish Colonial hostelry founded by the YWCA as a safe haven for solo female travelers.
Gold. Extremely rare. Sets the global standard.
Silver. Brilliant execution. And we’re picky.
Bronze. They did this well. You’ll notice.
Listed. A defining trait. Makes the hotel what it is.
Design. Built around a vision. Even the door handles have a designer.
Luxe. Cared for at every turn. The bath is drawn before you ask.
Local. It could only be here. You wake up knowing where you are.
Heritage. A building with a story. Once a palace, a monastery, a station.
Wellness. You leave feeling new. Rest, sweat, soak and sleep like a stone.
Classic. The city grew up with it. Same rituals, same regulars, same bar.
Resort. A world of its own. Something to do from breakfast to nightcap.