Savoia Excelsior Palace

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The Savoia Excelsior Palace is a 4-star conference and conference hotel in the northern Italian port city of Trieste . The city hotel, built in 1911, is located on the Riva del Mandracchio promenade, right next to the Palace of the Austrian Lloyd , and only around 300 m south of the Piazza Grande . Today's 142 guest rooms and suites offer atmospheric views of the Gulf of Trieste .

history

The Savoia Excelsior Palace was built in the years 1910 to 1911 according to plans by the Viennese architect Ladislaus Fiedler in the style of eclecticism . The opening ceremony on June 22, 1911 was a major social event in the city and was accompanied in the port of Trieste by the MS Thalia departing for an Atlantic crossing . The hotel was the last of the great grand hotels on the Austro-Hungarian Riviera ; after the Hotel Vanoli (1873) in Trieste, the Hotel Kvarner (1884) and the Hotel Imperial (1885) - both in Opatija , the Hotel Astoria (1900) in Grado , the Hotel Riviera (1909) in Pula and the Hotel Palace ( 1910) in Portorož . The hotel quickly received the award of the “most luxurious and impressive hotel in the entire Austro-Hungarian monarchy ” from the press at the time . In the years that followed, the ideal internal spatial relationships became the model for planning other grand hotels.

With Trieste as the most important trading port and one of the most important cultural centers of the monarchy, the hotel was a meeting point for international entrepreneurs, artists, diplomats, as well as members of the nobility and the upper class. Among the members of the imperial family, Emperor Franz Joseph I was particularly impressed by the atmosphere of the hotel.

Only after 1918, with the disappearance of the hinterland, and then after 1954, with the isolated location of the city on the edge of the Iron Curtain, did the hotel's public change. During the 1970s, the hotel underwent an extensive renovation, which, however - in line with the taste of the times - fell victim to large parts of the furniture, as well as wall and ceiling ornaments.

At the beginning of the 1990s, the hotel was taken over by the Florentine Starhotels group, which subjected it to a monument-oriented general renovation from 2006 to 2009, and many of the original details were restored. Only shortly after the hotel reopened in June 2009, the Savoia Excelsior Palace was the venue for a meeting of foreign ministers as part of the G8 summit in Italy in 2009 , among other things with Federal Foreign Minister a. D. Frank-Walter Steinmeier and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton . On June 22, 2011 the hotel celebrated its 100th anniversary.

Furnishing

The Savoia Excelsior Palace, renovated in 2009, has 142 rooms and 16 suites, including the 106 m² nautical suite. The “Savoy”, the hotel's own restaurant, can seat up to 160 guests. In addition, there are nine meeting and conference rooms in the house, which can accommodate up to 650 people.

literature

  • Corrado Caccialanza et al. a .: L'Hotel Savoia. Excelsior Palace di Trieste. La città, il palazzo, la società, le istituzioni , Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome, 1992

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lukas Wogrolly: Savoia Excelsior Palace (PDF; 130 kB) Living Culture KG. S. October 21, 2011. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
  2. ↑ Program G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting, Trieste, 25.-27. June 2009 (PDF; 145 kB) Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs . Retrieved July 5, 2012.
  3. ↑ Hotel brochure (PDF; 427 kB) Starhotels SpA. Retrieved July 5, 2012.

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Coordinates: 45 ° 38 ′ 58 "  N , 13 ° 45 ′ 56"  E