Legendary Grand Hotels Season II

Glamour, diverting anecdotes, intriguing stories, and enthralling views behind otherwise closed doors.

Virtually every metropolis, every sought-after ‘place in the sun,’ can boast a legendary hotel, a place steeped in tradition. The very words “Grand Hotel” emanate a special kind of magic. Such hotels are more than architecture, family history and tradition: they are chroniclers of our times. At a time when travel was still celebrated, grand personalities entered and exited Europe's grand hotels on a regular basis. Weaving themselves around these hotels – surrounded by an aura of glamour, as well as by a web of little anecdotes – were the most extravagant legends. Who were the visionary founders, the pioneering spirits of these hotels? What family histories, or tragedies, played themselves out behind these walls, behind the back of the guests? What feats of architectural mastery, which ingenious design features are concealed within these edifices?