Prestigious Hotel built in the east of the City

Between 1893 and 1894, based on a project by Pietro Agosti , the Hotel Bellevue was built according to the criteria that, for the Swiss, then masters of the sector, had to guide the construction of a great hotel: great luxury and magnificence in the atrium and in the various lounges on the ground floor, spacious and functional rooms that could also be grouped in districts to accommodate guests and their servants for long stays, an absolutely rigorous service.

It could have 27 flats with 200 beds and a 12,000 square metre park containing rare exotic plants.

The last of his great clients, after the war, was King Faud of Egypt, the protagonist of the worldly chronicles of those years.

In the first two decades of the last century, two therapeutic structures were annexed to Bellevue: the "kurhaus" (in German literally "Nursing Home") and a real hydrotherapy plant.
In its time a state-of-the-art facility.

The Kurhaus was added as a hotel to the Bellevue by 1920, but it was converted into the Hotel Excelsior after World War II, although it seems to have been converted into a hotel as early as 1921.

An outbuilding of the hotel, it was for a certain period also the famous Villa Zirio.

In April 1963 the whole complex was finally purchased by the Municipality of Sanremo, which three years later made the Bellevue the seat of the Town Hall.
The Excelsior became the seat of the two city high schools, the classic and historical Cassini High School and the scientific school Saccheri, of relative recent constitution.

Similarly, the hydrotherapy plant became until recently the seat of the Municipal Police.
    

(source texts: various authors; source images Private Archive)