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The Grand Hotel des Bains is a former luxury hotel on the
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Residenze des Bains
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The Grand Hotel des Bains is a former luxury hotel on the Lido
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of Venice
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in northern Italy
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.Historic Hotels – Hotel des Bains/ref> Built in 1900 to attract wealthy tourists, it is remembered amongst other things for
Thomas Mann
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's stay there in 1911, which inspired his novella '' Death in Venice''. Luchino Visconti's film
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of the novella was shot there in 1971.
Sergei Diaghilev died at the hotel in 1929. Over the years, the hotel was used by movie stars during the annual Venice Film Festival
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. In the 1996 film ''The English Patient'', the location was used to portray Shepheard's Hotel
Shepheard's Hotel was the leading hotel in Cairo and one of the most celebrated hotels in the world from the middle of the 19th century until its destruction in 1952 during the Cairo Fire. Five years after the original hotel was destroyed, a new ...
in Cairo.
In 2010, the hotel was closed for a planned conversion into a luxury condominium
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apartment complex, the Residenze des Bains. As of November 2019, the building is still awaiting renovation. A large fence surrounds it, with a guard employed inside.
References
* Elaine Denby: ''Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion''External links
*Residenze des Bains
Architizer – Grand Hotel des Bains Residenze
Hotels in Venice Hotel buildings completed in 1900 Companies based in Venice Defunct hotels {{Italy-hotel-stub