Ancien Palace : Riviera Palace

Built in 1897, the Riviera is one of the first palace hotels in the city. Swiss hotelier Widmer buys land on the Annonciade hill with the intention of building a sumptuous establishment surrounded by a large park. It was designed by the architect Abel Glena and the painter Guillaume Cerutti-Maori. The extension program planned by the same architect in 1910, is carried out by his collaborator, Alfred Auguste Marsang, and includes a three-storey elevation and the addition of a west wing. The Palace then consists of 250 rooms. In 1920, new outbuildings were added: an employee house in the form of a wing added to the east end of the main body; a cookhouse built at the rear of the hotel, near the kitchens; laundry facilities on the upper terrace, near the water cisterns; the construction of a 300-seat performance hall. In 1958, the establishment closed its doors and was sold as apartments.

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