Maloja Palace
| Maloja Palace Hotel | |
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The hotel, with the Piz Corvatsch in the background
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 Location within Switzerland
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| General information | |
| Location | Maloja, Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 46°24′22″N 9°41′58″E / 46.4060°N 9.6995°ECoordinates: 46°24′22″N 9°41′58″E / 46.4060°N 9.6995°E |
| Opening | 1884 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 4 |
| Floor area | 18,800m2 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Kuoni and Jules Rau |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 130 |
| Number of suites | 50 |
| Website | |
| www.malojapalace.com | |
The Maloja Palace is a hotel 15 km (9.3 mi) from St Moritz, in the Graubünden canton of Switzerland, at the top of the Maloja Pass (Italian: Passo del Maloja, German: Malojapass) (el. 1815 m.) linking the Engadin and the Bregell valley, very close to the village of Maloja a hamlet in the municipality of Bregaglia in the Maloja District.
Camille Maximilien Frédéric, count of Renesse (9 July 1836 – 12 June 1904), built the hotel following the designs of Belgian architects Kuoni and Jules Rau in a Neo-Renaissance style; building commenced in 1882 and the hotel was opened on 1 July 1884. Initially called "Hôtel Kursaal de la Maloja" it was renamed "Maloja Palace", becoming the first hotel to bear the name "Palace" at its time and the biggest and most modern hotel in the Alps.
The E-shaped building had five floors with a central cushion-domed roof, curved windows heads for ground and top floors relieve an overall barrack-like appearance, as do the colored frieze on a horizontal string-course in common with many more palace hotels at the outbreak of the Great War. Originally had 300 rooms and about 450 beds as well as 20 public rooms, two enormous dining rooms and an equally large ballroom possessing a small stage where, as part of the luxurious lifestyle intended to be on display, two concerts a day were given in summer months with musicians from the orchestra of La Scala.
The Maloja Palace had electricity and elevators, which were very modern at its time, an air refreshment system enhanced by the addition of ozone (early air conditioning), nine-hole golf course, two tennis courts and a darsena for rowing and sailing boats on Sils lake. However, the hotel went bankrupt only five months after opening as cholera had broken out in neighbouring Italy just four days after its opening.
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