Impérial Palace

Annecy, France. Located on the shore of Lake Annecy, surrounded by a 41,000 m² park.

Impérial PalaceAnnecy, France

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90 rooms and 14 suites.
Restaurants La Table, Le Salon and Le Riva, and the Salon de l’Impérial lounge bar.
600 m² Cristal Spa with relaxation pool, the Imperial Casino and the adjoining Grand Annecy convention centre.
Located on the shore of Lake Annecy, surrounded by a 41,000 m² park.

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

1912
René Leyvraz buys lakeside land to build a luxury hotel; the design, in the manner of a French château, is by Louis Ruphy.
14 July 1913
The hotel opens its ground and first floors; forty Americans attend the inaugural evening. Work continues until 1918.
1934
After a brief sale to a veterans’ mutual insurance union in 1933, Alban Dulong, whose family owns hotels in Vichy and Cannes, buys the palace back.
1939
War halts operations; the building is requisitioned and houses a Resistance headquarters.
1949
Restored in 1947, the hotel hosts the UN conference on tariffs and trade for six months.
31 August 1967
The hotel closes and the city of Annecy acquires the building and grounds; the park opens to the public in 1975.
1981
Isabelle Adjani and Yves Montand shoot « Tout feu tout flamme » here in March; on 26 October a fire damages the roof and interiors.
14 Sept. 1990
After two years of works keeping only the outer walls, the hotel reopens; the casino follows in 1991.
1 August 2013
Groupe PVG of La Clusaz takes over the management company.
2016
A 600 m² spa opens in March, and the renovated Imperial Casino is inaugurated in December.