The charm of the Grand Visconti Palace
lies in its ability to place its guests into a dimension of welcome
comprising atmospheres, feelings and areas in which they can take care
of themselves, and settings far away from the bustle and noise to relax
and work in.
At the Grand Visconti Palace, you are in
the heart of lived - in Milan, the Milan of the
Milanese. In a district which sprang up at the beginning of the 20th
century, with straight roads and beautiful precise buildings now known
as Old Milan style.
Close to a railway branch which is no longer in use, a
building stands on the area of one of the reference points of
industrial Milan. From 1920 onwards this area accommodated the Verga
Mill: trains used to come right into the courtyard to load flour to be
transported all over Italy.
Nowadays that courtyard, which houses the bedrooms, the Health
Centre and the Conference Centre, is an
extraordinary spacious green area in the Italian garden style.
A hotel that is both modern and old, classical but without
trimmings, fashionable but without being trendy, and sober, elegant and
true, the Grand Visconti Palace presents itself
forward as a dynamic, versatile reality - an area to experience as a
natural, prestigious location for events, shows, exhibitions, fashion
shows and much more besides.
The Grand Visconti Palace is the only City
Resort in Milan.
HistoryThe city's image has always been linked with the world of
work, and hotel guests' choices of hotel are made almost exclusively in
order to optimize the time available, with their own wellbeing often
taking second place.
Up to now it was not thought that "A Resort in the
City" could be realized in Italy's economic capital: so the
owners created a green oasis in an attempt to offer the guests the
chance to take care of themselves before and after a busy working day,
and to rediscover the pleasant feeling of treating themselves to a
little calm and relaxation.
After thinking up and realizing this project from the
structural point of view, the desire was to satisfy your needs and
humour your expectations.
Their wish was to reintroduce the pleasure of "offering
hospitality" which was in use last century in grand hotels throughout
the world, when the doorman was the butler, the barman the keeper of
secrets and the manager the watchful, discrete landlord.
The Verga Mill stood in a 12,000 square
metre area situated in a central position with easy access, on 1920.
The mill later became the premises of a famous biscuit factory, which
moved elsewhere at the end of the ’90s.
On September 2001, a building in the heart
of Milan came up: part of the building was refurbished and another part
was demolished and rebuilt with the specific desire of maintaining
intact the design of the old building which dated back to the early
years of last century.
The intention was to capture the charm which only period
buildings can transmit, and to allow it to be experienced in the future.
172 rooms, a conference centre, a banqueting hall, a
restaurant, a health centre with an indoor swimming pool, a park, a
garage with spaces for 70 cars and a car-park for 3 coaches complete
the offering.
For the name of the hotel, they chose the name of an important
Lordship - the Viscontis, who from the end of the
fourteenth century and the beginning of the fifteenth century were in
charge of what was the largest and most powerful state of Italy at that
time. Tradition united with innovation.
The names of the rooms are those of the main city gates of
Milan, while for the restaurant and the bar they opted for more
original and modern names, playing on the letter “V” in their logo.
Thus the “Al V Piano” restaurant
(corresponding exactly to the floor on which it is situated) and the “Visavis”
Bar (intentionally Italianized in the writing) came into being.