A Hotel born from the union of two villas

It was born as Pensione des Etrangers when the architect Carlo Gastaldi. united in a single body, the two Guidi cottages, designed many years earlier by his father Giovenale Gastaldi.

In the thirties of the twentieth century it also took the name of Albergo Ratti.

The two cottages, in 1876, had hosted the nephew and the chancellor of the Empress of Russia Maria Aleksandrovna during her stay in San Remo, while she was staying at the Hoterl de Nice.

It became Hotel Des Etrangers in 1925 after a further transformation carried out on a project by Giovenale Gastaldi Jr, nephew of the other Giovenale.

The hotel was completely demolished at the turn of the Sixties and Seventies and rebuilt according to a more modern architectural line but preserving the external structure.
Also this hotel, demolished in the 90s, was demolished and a modern multipurpose building was built in its place.

(for texts, source: Una Stagione lunga cent'anni, by Bruno Monticone)