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“Location may be useful if you need to be close to the railway station (trip to Venezia ...”
fromAnonymous user,13 years ago
Hotel Grand'Italia, Padua
Corso del Popolo 81, Padua, 35100, Italy
Description
IL PALAZZO FOLCHI NOW HOTEL GRAND ITALIA WAS BUILT IN1909 ON A DESIGN BY THE RENOWNED ARCHITECT PRIMO TERTULLIANOMIOZZO FOR CAV. GUGLIELMO FOLCHI. UNLIKE OTHER BUILDINGS INTHE AREA THAT WERE MOSTLY ZONED AS BOTH BUSINESS ANDRESIDENTIAL THE HOTEL WAS EXCLUSIVELY AN ARISTOCRATICPRIVATE HOME. IT WAS ERECTED IN A SCENIC LOCATION AT THECORNER BETWEEN PIAZZALE DELLA STAZIONE AND THE CORSO AT ATIME WHEN THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT MONUMENTS IN THE AREA.IN THOSE DAYS THIS HISTORIC PALACE WAS HIGHLY CRITICIZED ANDDEFINED AS BARBARIAN OR UNSPEAKABLE FOR ART NOUVEAU WAS NOTREALLY APPRECIATED THEN. THE FACT IS THAT THE BUILDING IS AGREAT EXAMPLE OF STYLE LIBERTY WHICH WAS DEAR TO THE RULINGCLASS OF THE POPULAR PARTY FOR ITS ORIGINAL FEATURESDIFFERENT THAN THE ECLECTIC STYLE PREFERRED BY PADUACONSERVATIVES AT THE TIME. THE BUILDING FEATURES A SCENICCORRUGATED CORNER PERSPECTIVE INSPIRED BY BALCONIES PORCHES AND TERRACES WHOSE CURVILINEAR NIMBLE INTERVALS TOGETHER WITH FIGURES AND FLORAL EMBELLISHMENTS CONVEY THEFEELINGS OF MODERNITY AND YOUTH. WROUGHT IRON DECORATIONS BYADOLFO CALIGARIS ON BALCONIES AND IRONWORKS WILL FOREVER BETIED TO THE STYLE LIBERTY. THE RECENT RESTORATION MADEPOSSIBLE BY THE CINEL FAMILY HAS GIVEN THE PUBLIC THEOPPORTUNITY TO VIEW THESE ORIGINAL WORKS THAT HAD BEENHIDDEN FOR TOO LONG.
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Handicap accessible
Pets allowed
Air conditioned
Elevator
Bar
Business center
Currency exchange
Internet
Internet (wireless)
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