9 hotels
Hotels that made history
Treaties signed, constitutions drafted, summits held: hotels where the course of events changed.
The Peninsula Paris
The 1908 Hotel Majestic on avenue Kléber, where the 1973 Paris Peace Accords were signed, reborn in 2014.
200 rooms
The Willard
Washington’s 1901 Beaux-Arts hotel two blocks from the White House, where Martin Luther King Jr. worked on his 1963 speech.
The Shelbourne
Dublin’s hotel on St Stephen’s Green since 1824, where the Constitution of the Irish Free State was drafted.
Château Frontenac
The 1893 railway château above the St. Lawrence River, where Allied leaders met in 1943 and 1944.
610 rooms
Schloss Elmau
A 1916 castle hotel in a Bavarian Alpine valley, host of the G7 summits of 2015 and 2022.
100 rooms · Events up to 300
Hôtel de Crillon
An 18th-century palace on Place de la Concorde, behind Ange-Jacques Gabriel’s colonnade, a hotel since 1909.
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
Hanoi’s French colonial hotel since 1901, where Charlie Chaplin honeymooned and Graham Greene stayed.
364 rooms
Hotel Astoria
Opened in 1912 on St Isaac's Square, the Astoria served as a hospital during the siege of Leningrad and has been a Rocco Forte hotel since 1997.
Radisson Collection Hotel, Moscow
The former Hotel Ukraina is the tallest of Moscow's seven Stalinist skyscrapers, 206 metres to the tip of its spire, restored and reopened in 2010.
497 rooms · Events up to 300