Olá! Bem-vindos, meus caros amigos e leitores! No meu aniversário fui passar uns dias a um hotel. Escolhi um hotel histórico, que é um marco nacional da história da hotelaria em Portugal. Trata-se do Hotel Palace da Curia. Situando-se no Parque Termal da Curia foi edificado entre 1922-26. O hotel é caracterizado por um ecletismo das formas e ornamentações com muitos elementos da Arte Nova. O interior foi projectado de uma forma moderna com a vertente medicinal proporcionada pelas termas vizinhas. Este hotel competiu com os melhores hoteis da capital e até com os hoteis europeus! Apresentado que está o hotel, venham daí comigo para uma viagem histórica!
Hello! Welcome, my dear friends and readers! On my birthday, I went to spend a few days at a hotel. I chose a historic hotel, which is a national landmark in the history of hospitality in Portugal. It is the Hotel Palace of Curia. Located in the Curia Thermal Park, it was built between 1922 and 1926. The hotel is characterised by an eclecticism of forms and ornamentation with many Art Nouveau elements. The interior was designed in a modern style with a medicinal aspect provided by the nearby thermal baths. This hotel competed with the best hotels in the capital and even with European hotels! Now that I have introduced the hotel, come with me on a historical journey!
Alexandre Almeida was a visionary man. He was the first hotel industrialist in Portugal, left his mark on the industry and developed tourism in Portugal. Alexandre Almeida conceived this hotel after making several study trips to the Côte D'Azur, Italy and the east coast of the United States. He surrounded himself with the best architect of the time, who was also the architect of the Portuguese Royal House and had won many awards, to develop the project.
In the 1920s, this hotel was the venue for many elite parties. It was also the setting for films. Many writers took refuge here to write their literary works. Between 2005 and 2006, it underwent extensive renovation. Currently, Alexandre Almeida's hotel chain is run by the third generation, the founder's grandchildren.
It was in this historic setting that I spent my birthday. The charm of the hotel made me forget who I really am for a few days. I didn't want to celebrate my birthday with cake and candles and people singing happy birthday. I had no reason to do so, or I couldn't find any reason within myself to do so. So, as always, I spent it with the most important person in my life: my mother!
The hotel offered me a bottle of champagne, but I declined, partly because I cannot drink alcohol, but mainly because there was no reason to pop open a bottle of champagne. Better days will come, I am sure, the days of TRUTH! The truth may take time, but I am patient.
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This hotel looks so nice!!
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Fotos muito elegantes. O meu aplauso e elogio
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very good post thank you :)
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Such a rich history! Thanks for the tour! Such fabulous photos. All the best to your travels. I think I'm better this week. Fingers crossed. Thanks for the fabulous post! 💗❤️💗❤️💗💗❤️
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First of all, I want to wish you happy birthday and may all your needs be fullfiled and wishes bring you joy. May you always find the strenght you built with so much patience and the serenity to enjoy every succes and victory.
ResponderEliminarI congratulate you for your choice to celebrate your birthday, in such a wonderful and meneangfull place with the person most dear and close to you!
Lastly, thank you for sharing all those informations with us, it is stunning to see how such valuable constructions, real monuments actually, are so well used in their original objective.