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Diners at the second-floor restaurant at Marqués de Riscal’s hotel in Elciego, Spain, can descend in an elevator—built into one of the main pillars that support the Frank Gehry–designed structure—to La Catedral, or the Cathedral.
When the Carlton Hotel opened in 1913, a rumor—likely planted by the property’s owner—held that the building originally was planned as a summer residence for Czar Nicholas II.
In the cool morning air, steam rising from the four open-air thermal pools at Terme di Saturnia Spa & Golf Resort partially obscures the slopes of Mt. Amiata, an extinct volcano in Italy’s Apenines.
In 1966, when Lebanese hotelier Jean-Prosper Gay-Para began building an all-white, 50-room hotel at the highest point of what was then the small fishing village of Saint-Tropez, he sought to capture the essence of his homeland’s ancient port of Byblos.
Until recently, the room that houses the Knights Bar at Capella Castlemartyr served as a chapel for Carmelite priests.
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