Belmond Grand Hotel Timeo is a hotel located at the centre of Taormina in Sicily, adjacent to the Greek Theatre.
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| - Belmond Grand Hotel Timeo is a hotel located at the centre of Taormina in Sicily, adjacent to the Greek Theatre. (en)
- Le Grand Hotel Timeo aujourd'hui Belmond Grand Hotel Timeo est un hôtel de luxe situé à Taormine, en Sicile (Italie). En 1863, le baron prussien Otto Geleng est hébergé chez Francesco La Floresta dont les aquarelles qui dépeignent les vues depuis les chambres et les terrasses font sensation à Paris et Berlin. Au cours des années, il s'agrandit pour abriter jusqu'à 40 chambres et suites, et absorbe la Villa Flora voisine où sont installées 30 chambres de standing inférieur. L'hôtel possède également un parc de 5 hectares plantés de palmiers avec un potager qui fournit le restaurant de l'hôtel. (fr)
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- Don Francesco and his son Giuseppe enlarged the Timeo to 12 rooms. The American writer and art critic Bernhard Berenson remembers the Timeo as the only hotel in Taormina. (en)
- The Film Festival "Taormina Arte" was inaugurated, attracting large numbers of visitors to Taormina and Grand Hotel Timeo. (en)
- Otto Gèleng, a 20-year-old Prussian baron, visited Taormina to paint watercolours and took residence in a private house belonging to Don Francesco La Floresta. Don Francesco had started renting rooms in 1850 and called his house "Timeo", the name of the founder of the Greek city "Tauromenion" in 358 BC. Geleng’s watercolours of the snow-capped Etna and its green slopes overlooking the sea created enormous interest in Berlin and Paris, resulting in a series of artists visiting Taormina, staying at Don Francesco’s "Timeo" house. (en)
- The Franza family from Messina purchased the Timeo and added a meeting centre and pool. The family also purchased Belmond Villa Sant’Andrea in Mazzarò Bay, beside the sea at Taormina. (en)
- Don Francesco sold an orange field and with the proceeds bought a house right below the Greek Theatre, where he continued his activity with five guest rooms on the spot where Belmond Grand Timeo now stands. (en)
- The company changed its name to Belmond Ltd. At that time the hotel was renamed Belmond Grand Hotel Timeo (en)
- The English writer D. H. Lawrence lived at the Timeo for four years, during which time he wrote Lady Chatterley’s Lover. When Giuseppe died, the Timeo was inherited by his son, Francesco, nick-named Don Ciccino, who continued to manage the hotel. During the Second World War, the Timeo was requisitioned for a number of years by the British Royal Air Force. (en)
- The Timeo was first visited by Edward VII, King of England, and his wife Augusta, followed by further visits in 1907 and 1908. (en)
- Giuseppe La Floresta inherited the Timeo after the death of Don Francesco and added 60 new rooms to the existing 12 between 1896 and 1906. By now, the Timeo was a hotel of great standing, visited by emperors, kings and grand dukes of European courts who wanted to spend winter in a warm climate. Thanks to this mild weather the Timeo was a winter resort and closed between May and October. In 1896, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany visited Taormina, stayed at the Timeo, and returned in 1904 and 1906 when he rented the entire hotel for a month for his family and court. Luxury tourism kept increasing until the First World War and thereafter, from 1920 to 1929, during the time of the Belle Epoque in Europe (en)
- In January, the Franza family sold both Grand Hotel Timeo and Villa Sant’Andrea to Orient-Express Hotels. (en)
- After the death of Don Ciccino, the reins of the hotel passed to his daughters, who continued at the hotel for another 15 years. (en)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote for the first time about the Greek Theatre in his Italian Journey (en)
- The Timeo was sold by the Floresta family to Gaetano Graci, who totally refurbished and modernised the hotel. (en)
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| - Via Teatro Greco 59, 98039, Taormina, Sicily (en)
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| - Belmond Grand Hotel Timeo is a hotel located at the centre of Taormina in Sicily, adjacent to the Greek Theatre. (en)
- Le Grand Hotel Timeo aujourd'hui Belmond Grand Hotel Timeo est un hôtel de luxe situé à Taormine, en Sicile (Italie). En 1863, le baron prussien Otto Geleng est hébergé chez Francesco La Floresta dont les aquarelles qui dépeignent les vues depuis les chambres et les terrasses font sensation à Paris et Berlin. La Floresta décide d'acheter une maison face au théâtre gréco-romain de Taormine, dont la situation privilégiée est accentuée par les terrasses et balcons donnant sur la mer et l'Etna. Timeo, nommé d'après l'historien antique Timée de Tauroménion, est le seul hôtel de Taormine jusqu'à la transformation du couvent San Domenico. À partir de 1873, la maison qui forme aujourd'hui le corps principal de l'hôtel, accueille dans ses 5 puis 12 chambres les premiers touristes européens qui réalisent leur Grand Tour, parmi lesquels Wilhelm von Gloeden, Oscar Wilde, André Gide, Jean Cocteau,Thomas Mann, Gustav Klimt, Paul Klee et Richard Wagner S'en suivront Guillaume II, D. H. Lawrence, Truman Capote, Edmondo De Amicis, Giovanni Verga, Luigi Pirandello, Salvatore Quasimodo, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Somerset Maugham, Leonardo Sciascia. Au cours des années, il s'agrandit pour abriter jusqu'à 40 chambres et suites, et absorbe la Villa Flora voisine où sont installées 30 chambres de standing inférieur. L'hôtel possède également un parc de 5 hectares plantés de palmiers avec un potager qui fournit le restaurant de l'hôtel. Réquisitionné lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale pour devenir le quartier général de la Royal Air Force, il accueille dans les années 1940 et 1950, Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn et Sophia Loren. En 1981, la famille Floresta vend après un siècle d'exploitation l'hôtel à Gaetano Graci, actionnaire de Banca Agricola Etnea, qui le restaure puis le cède en 1988 à la famille Franza. de Messine. Il est racheté en 2010, en même temps que la Villa Sant’Andrea sur la côte relié au palace par un bus privé, par le groupe hôtelier Orient-Express Hotels devenu en 2014 Belmond. (fr)
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