Grand Hotel Majestic già Baglioni

Bologna, Italy. Located on Via dell'Indipendenza, a few steps from Piazza Maggiore.

Grand Hotel Majestic già BaglioniBologna, Italy

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Address: Grand Hotel Majestic già Baglioni
Via dell'Indipendenza 8
40121 Bologna
Italy
Telephone: +39 051 225445
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109 rooms and suites in an 18th-century palazzo, the former archiepiscopal seminary.
I Carracci restaurant beneath frescoes, and the Camerino d'Europa, an early work by the Carracci; a stretch of Roman road in the basement hosts exhibitions.
Bar and reading room, congress room, sauna, hydromassage and fitness room.
Located on Via dell'Indipendenza, a few steps from Piazza Maggiore.

10 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

1584
The Carracci paint frescoes in rooms that later became part of the hotel, among them the Camerino d'Europa, probably Agostino and Annibale's first major commission.
1738
For Cardinal Prospero Lambertini, later pope, architect Alfonso Torreggiani is paid 2,000 scudi to build the archiepiscopal seminary on the site.
June 1909
The Curia sells the former seminary building.
1912
Engineer Gasperini converts the seminary into a hotel, run by the Baglioni family and incorporating parts of Palazzo Fava with their Carracci works.
1924
A new floor is added to the building.
18 Oct. 1944
Partisans of the G.A.P. set off dynamite against a Nazi unit stationed in the hotel, destroying its central section and part of the façade.
1950s
Many film and cultural stars stay at the hotel during the post-war decades.
1977
After 65 years, the Baglioni family's management ends and the hotel closes.
c. 1987
About ten years later the hotel reopens as Bologna's only five-star hotel.
July 2010
The Duetorrihotels group takes ownership and later refurbishes the hotel.