The Westin Paris – Vendôme
The Westin Paris - Vendôme | |
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The hotel in 2005, before it was renamed The Westin | |
Location within Paris | |
General information | |
Location | 3, Rue de Castiglione, Paris, France |
Coordinates | 48°52′15″N 2°19′51″E / 48.87083°N 2.33083°E |
Opening | April 1878 |
Management | Starwood Hotels |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 5 |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 440 |
Number of restaurants | 2 |
The Westin Paris – Vendôme, at 3 rue de Castiglione on the corner of the rue de Rivoli, facing the Tuileries Garden opened in April 1878 as the Hôtel Continental,[1] It was designed by Charles Garnier's son-in-law Henri Blondel[2] and was intended to be the most luxurious hotel in Paris at the time. It occupied a full block, the former premises of the Ministry of Finance, (burned in 1871) which had been designed by François-Hippolyte Destailleur in 1817, following the Bourbon Restoration.[3] During the first World War the hotel was used as a military hospital by the French.[4] The Hôtel Continental remained the largest hotel in Paris for decades; the Russian Grand Dukes habitually stayed there;[5] at the Liberation of Paris, bedsheets were hung from its windows as cheerful flags of surrender.[6] The hotel was renamed the Inter-Continental Paris in 1969, and then became The Westin Paris in 2005, adding the suffix Vendôme to its name in 2010.
Notes
- ↑ Karl Baedeker, Paris and Its Environs, 1878.
- ↑ "Henri Blondel (1832-97), son-in-law of Charles Garnier" (Elaine Denby, Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion (1998:85).
- ↑ see note).
- ↑ "Belonging and Betrayal", Gervase Vernon, Amazon, 2013
- ↑ Notes by Lord Hardinge.
- ↑ Vintage photo
External links
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- The Westin Paris - Vendôme Official Website
- The Westin Paris - Vendôme Official Chain Website