Maloja Palace

The Maloja Palace (also Maloja Palace Hotel, formerly the Hôtel de la Kursaal Maloja ) is a luxury hotel in Graubünden mountain village of Maloja in Switzerland. It was once one of the largest and most modern hotels in the world.

The building was built in the years 1882-1884 on a bay of Lake Sils by the Belgian architect Jules Rau in neo-Renaissance style and opened on 1 July 1884. The five-story complex comprised of 300 rooms with 450 beds and 20 dining and ballrooms. [Note 1]

However, the hotel company under the Belgian count Camille de Renesse had only five months after bankruptcy, even as broken cholera in neighboring Italy and the Near border had been closed because of it. The hotel remained open until 1934, as a result under different owners. In the following decades the huge hotel complex, especially the Swiss Army, which carried out refresher courses served here.

1962 let the owner company, the Holiday Hotel Maloja AG, its majority shareholder, the Belgian health insurance Mutual Insurance chrétienne held, the hotel complex at the operating company Intersoc. Since then, the hotel served as a warehouse, colonies and holiday home for a variety of primarily Belgian youth groups. Since the 1980s, when the house was fully occupied, the occupancy but decreased steadily as, inter alia, due to the declining attractiveness of warehouses with dormitories and military shifts as well as the deletion of the night train between Brussels and Chur by the NMBS / SNCB was what the travel time considerably longer. The " Mutuality chrétienne " like other Belgian health insurance addition was in financial straits and would be encumbered by the necessary high renovation costs.

In January 2006, the sale for 15 million francs for the Maloja Palace by the " Holiday Hotel Maloja AG " at the insistence of the majority shareholder was confirmed. The buyer is a Swiss company, led by the Italian Amedeo Clavarino millionaire, who had already bought up several hotels in the Valais. Originally, he wanted to create apartments in the building, but this was not granted. In July 2009, the Maloja Palace was reopened after an extensive renovation and restoration in the millions as a luxury hotel with 50 rooms.

Pictures

The Hotel 1900

Photochrom Postcard 1900