InterContinental Marseille – Hotel Dieu

Marseille, France. Overlooking the Vieux-Port, facing Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde.

InterContinental Marseille – Hotel DieuMarseille, France

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Address: InterContinental Marseille – Hotel Dieu
1 place Daviel
13002 Marseille
France
Telephone: +33 4 13 42 42 42
Official website: marseille.intercontinental.com
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194 rooms and suites, 72 of them with views over the Old Port.
Les Fenêtres brasserie, named after the building's arched windows, and Le Capian bar with its large terrace.
Spa by Clarins, pool, fitness centre and twelve meeting rooms.
Overlooking the Vieux-Port, facing Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde.

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

1188
The Saint-Esprit Hospital is founded on the site.
1593
The Saint-Esprit and Saint-Jacques de Galice hospitals merge to form the Hôtel-Dieu, Marseille's main hospital.
1747
Ophthalmologist Jacques Daviel performs an extracapsular cataract extraction here, a landmark in eye surgery.
1753 – 1788
The present building rises to designs by Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne, architect to Louis XV, funded by Jean-Étienne Raymond.
1860 – 1866
Architect Félix Blanchet remodels the hospital, inaugurated by Napoleon III in November 1866.
1963
The building is listed on the supplementary inventory of historic monuments.
1993
The last patients leave after 805 years of service; it remains a teaching hospital until 2006.
2003 – 2007
The property is sold for redevelopment; in 2007 it is chosen to become an InterContinental luxury hotel.
2010
Works begin, carried out by Eiffage and developed by Altarea Cogedim, with interiors by Jean-Philippe Nuel.
25 April 2013
The hotel opens as the fourth InterContinental in France; its restaurant Alcyone earns a Michelin star within months.
2014
Wins Best Refurbished Building at the MIPIM Awards and appears on the Condé Nast Traveler Hot List.