Sunday 8 and Sunday 22 December, 4 p.m.
The Palazzo dei Congressi, once the famous Grand Hôtel des Thèrmes, was designed in 1898, commissioned by the Magnaghi Company, by the Milanese architect Luigi Broggi and inaugurated in 1901. The imposing building has a horseshoe-shaped floor plan, spread over four floors plus the ground floor, with some three hundred rooms originally arranged on the four floors. The façade is characterised by pictorial decorations with plant motifs by the artist Gottardo Valentini and an entrance with a wrought-iron railing and canopy by Alessandro Mazzucotelli, a clear anticipation of the new Art Nouveau style.
After the First World War, the hotel, which had just passed into the hands of the Società Anonima Grandi Alberghi Salsomaggiore, was enlarged with the addition of a new building, leaning against the existing one and facing the park to house the Salone Moresco, the Taverna Rossa and the Loggiato, works by Ugo Giusti and Galileo Chini.
It is precisely to the great Florentine artist, already a protagonist at Terme Berzieri, that we owe the decorations of the new rooms, inspired by the Moorish style and the Oriental tradition, and the reconstruction of the vault of the dining room, now the Caryatids Room.
Duration: 45 minutes
Admission: 6.00 € adults, free admission for children under 10 years of age
Reservation required
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