To spot the Riviera Palace, look ahead for a grand, cream-colored building with ornate balconies, tall bay windows, and lush palm trees brushing against its richly decorated facade-it stands out like a palace among the hotels!
Now, let’s step back to the year 1903. Imagine the sound of horse-drawn carriages and stylish visitors arriving, because this magnificent building was born to be the fanciest hotel in Sanremo! Designed by the clever architect Francesco Sappia, the Riviera Palace quickly became a symbol of both elegance and invention-almost like it wanted to show off just how airy and beautiful a hotel could be. But in 1936, chaos struck! The city wanted a wider Corso Imperatrice, and the whole building was given a giant, polite shove backward-a whopping four and a half meters, to be precise. Not an easy task when you’ve got all those balconies, bay windows, and ornate decorations to worry about! The builders had to reconstruct its dreamy facade so it’d look just like it always had. Fast forward through the war years, and the palace switched from a stylish hotel to a fancy residence and then back again, finally becoming today’s Hotel Lolli Palace. If you listen closely, you can almost hear the clink of glasses from elegant parties long ago-maybe even the walls remember all the excitement of being pushed down the street just to make room for more beauty. Who says buildings never move, eh?
