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The Hôtel de Vendôme (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vɑ̃dom]) is a five-star hotel situated at 1 Place Vendôme in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.Founded in 1858, it is located at the southern entrance to the Place Vendôme, on the northwest corner of the intersection of the Rue Saint-Honoré and the Rue Place Vendôme.
The Lido, or Venice Lido (Italian: Lido di Venezia), is an 11-kilometre-long (7-mile) barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon, Northern Italy; it is home to about 20,400 residents. The Venice Film Festival takes place at the Lido in late August/early September. [1] Lido Island seen from the campanile of the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore.
Mandarin Oriental, Paris: Mandarin Terrace Room. The hotel has 96 guest rooms and 39 suites, [1] with notable figures involved in the design of the space: Sybille de Margerie designed the guest rooms, suites, public spaces and The Spa, with furniture designed by Bruno de Caumont.
The two Catholic institutions are located in the northern part of the Lido di Venezia and house the relics of Saint Nicholas, patron of sailors (shared with Bari). From this church, the traditional thanksgiving Mass of the Sposalizio del Mare ("Marriage of the Sea") is celebrated. The complex houses monks of the Franciscan order. [1]
The section between the now extinct Rue du Rempart and the Rue Royale was known successively as the Chemin de Clichy (1204), Grand chemin Saint-Honoré (1283), Chaussée Saint-Honoré (1370), Grand chemin de la Porte Saint-Honoré (1392), Chemin Royal (1393), Nouvelle rue Saint-Louis (1407), Grand rue Saint-Louis (1421), Rue Neuve-Saint-Louis ...
The building was built in 1714 by Pierre Grandhomme for Anne Levieux, the wife of a financier. It then belonged to the fermier général Étienne Perrinet de Jars (who also owned the Château de Boucard), who gave it his name and had it transformed by King's architect Jean-Michel Chevotet.
The hotel was commissioned by the Costes brothers, Jean-Louis and Gilbert, [1] from the designer and interior architect Jacques Garcia [1] in 1991. It opened in 1995 at 239 rue St-Honoré . The hotel is now renowned as a den of opulence and was built in conjunction with Klay Robson as Developer and construction consultant (the design maxim was ...
The Venetian Lagoon (Italian: Laguna di Venezia; Venetian: Łaguna de Venesia) is an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated. Its name in the Italian and Venetian languages , Laguna Veneta (cognate of Latin lacus ' lake ' ), has provided the English name for an enclosed, shallow embayment of ...