The Westin Paris – Vendôme
| The Westin Paris - Vendôme |
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| The hotel in 2005, before it was renamed The Westin |
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| Location |
3, Rue de Castiglione, Paris, France |
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| Opening date |
April 1878 |
| Management |
Starwood Hotels |
| Rooms |
440 |
| Restaurants |
2 |
| Floors |
5 |
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 nephew Henri Blondel 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.[2] The Hôtel Continental remained the largest hotel in Paris for decades; the Russian Grand Dukes habitually stayed there;[3] at the Liberation of Paris, bedsheets were hung from its windows as cheerful flags of surrender.[4] The hotel was renamed the Inter-Continental Paris in the 1980s, and then became The Westin Paris in 2005, adding the suffix Vendôme to its name in 2010.
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