Four Seasons Hotel Ritz Lisbon

Lisbon, Portugal. Located on Rua Rodrigo da Fonseca, overlooking Lisbon’s Edward VII Park.

Four Seasons Hotel Ritz LisbonLisbon, Portugal

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Address: Four Seasons Hotel Ritz Lisbon
Rua Rodrigo da Fonseca, 88
1099-039 Lisbon
Portugal
Telephone: +351 21 381 1400
Official website: www.fourseasons.com
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290 rooms, including 20 suites, all with balconies; one suite is named after artist Almada Negreiros.
Five restaurants and bars, including the Michelin-starred CURA and Varanda.
Award-winning spa, pools and a collection of mid-century Portuguese art that earns it the nickname “living museum”.
Located on Rua Rodrigo da Fonseca, overlooking Lisbon’s Edward VII Park.

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

1940
Ahead of the Portuguese World Exhibition, plans for a grand hotel called A Casa do Império are drawn up, then abandoned.
1950
Salazar revives the idea of a first-class hotel and personally oversees it; the SODIM company is formed, with banker Ricardo Espírito Santo among its partners.
1952
Modernist architect Porfírio Pardal Monteiro is engaged to help choose the site and starts sketching designs.
Early 1955
Monteiro and Jorge Ferreira Chaves settle on a single block with balconies on every room, facing Edward VII Park.
1957
Monteiro dies; Chaves completes the project. Artists such as Jorge Barradas and Almada Negreiros contribute tiles and tapestries.
1958
The Ritz name is negotiated with Charles Ritz; management goes to Les Grands Hôtels Européens.
1959
The Ritz is inaugurated before 2,000 guests, 100 of them from abroad.
1979
Management returns to SODIM, then passes to Intercontinental Hotels, which runs the hotel until 1995.
1997
Four Seasons takes over the hotel.