The Westin Paris – Vendôme

Coordinates: 48°52′15″N 2°19′51″E / 48.87083°N 2.33083°E / 48.87083; 2.33083
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by InternetArchiveBot (talk | contribs) at 19:49, 26 June 2018 (Rescuing 2 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

"Hotel Continental" redirects here. For other uses, see Hotel Continental (disambiguation).
The Westin Paris - Vendôme
The hotel in 2005, before it was renamed The Westin
The Westin Paris – Vendôme is located in Paris
The Westin Paris – Vendôme
Location within Paris
General information
Location3, Rue de Castiglione, Paris, France
Coordinates48°52′15″N 2°19′51″E / 48.87083°N 2.33083°E / 48.87083; 2.33083
OpeningApril 1878
ManagementStarwood Hotels
Technical details
Floor count5
Other information
Number of rooms440
Number of restaurants2
Hôtel Continental, on the left, in 1900
A ballroom in The Westin
Share of the L'Hôtel Continental S. A., issued 31. October 1925

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

  1. ^ Karl Baedeker, Paris and Its Environs, 1878.
  2. ^ "Henri Blondel (1832-97), son-in-law of Charles Garnier" (Elaine Denby, Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion (1998:85).
  3. ^ see note) Archived 2006-11-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ "Belonging and Betrayal", Gervase Vernon, Amazon, 2013
  5. ^ Notes by Lord Hardinge.
  6. ^ Vintage photo Archived 2008-02-13 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Westin Paris.


Stub icon 1 Stub icon 2

This article about a French hotel or resort is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Westin_Paris_–_Vendôme&oldid=847641513"