"The building is made up of two buildings, the smaller of which - presumably designed by the engineer Giuseppe Bianco - is configured as an appendix. During the twentieth century it was raised by one floor with the construction of a volume with a loggia with windows. The main building has a facade clad in stone slabs, with an axial and symmetrical scheme defined by architraved window-holes, single and in tripartite form, resolved as French windows enclosed by balustraded balconies in the middle and at the side ends. The lateral appendix is characterized by architraved window-holes, arranged axially."
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"Originally the Hotel was made up of two separate Hotels: the Hotel Angleterre, later called Londres, dating back in 1865 and the Beau Rivage, built in 1865. The two buildings were joined together in 1900.
In 1877 the Russian composer Piotr Illitch Tchaikovsky stayed at the Hotel and composed the first three movements of n°4 Symphony. Other famous guests include Gabriele D’Annunzio, Jorge Luis Borges and Iosif Brodskij."
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