The Hotel among the first built

There are no precise date on the origins of Hotel Eden, but certainly the House in Via Solaro is one of the oldest in the city.
It was built as a hotel in 1876 with the transformation of Villa Biancheri, a building built in 1860.

But when it was born, the hotel did so under the name of Hotel Des Anglais owned by Giuseppe Conio.
At that time Corso Marconi was called Corso di Ponente.

Later the same Conio built the great Hotel Des Anglais, still existing today, in Corso Imperatrice and, from 1888, Eden became the property of Modesto Beghelli, an entrepreneur who also directed the Hotel de la Source in Briga Marittima.

It was Beghelli who renamed the hotel with its present name.

At the turn of the two centuries the hotel functioned mainly as a religious women's pension "Maison de Famille", run by the French Franciscan Sisters of Notre Dame des Anges, and consequently all the pictures are in French.

The engineer Pietro Agosti undertook to design and build a chapel next to the building in 1900, which functioned as a religious building until about the 1960s, but is now abandoned.

In the Thirties the House resumed its hotel function in a complete manner.

(sources: processing from various sources; images from private archives)