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Bvlgari Hotel Milano
Antonio Citterio's 2004 conversion of a 1950s block. The garden, four thousand square metres, was once a monastery vegetable plot.
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Four Seasons Hotel Milano
A fifteenth-century convent on Via Gesù, converted in 1993. The Renaissance cloister was found during the restoration, not before it.
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Mandarin Oriental
Four eighteenth-century buildings on Via Andegari, joined into a single hotel by Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel, open since 2015.
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Portrait Milano - Lungarno Collection
The archbishop's seminary Carlo Borromeo founded in 1564, reworked by Michele De Lucchi. Its baroque cloister is now a public square.
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Armani Hotel Milano
Enrico Griffini's 1937 rationalist palazzo, converted in 2011. The hotel occupies floors two to eight, ninety-five rooms, and no more.
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Palazzo Parigi Hotel & Grand Spa - LHW
Opened 2013 by architect-owner Paola Giambelli on the site of a bombed palazzo, later a bank. The 18th-century garden survives.
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Grand Hotel et de Milan - The Leading Hotels of the World
Verdi lived here from 1872. As he lay dying in 1901, straw was laid on Via Manzoni to muffle the carriages.
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Hotel Principe Di Savoia - Dorchester Collection
Cesare Tenca's neoclassical hotel of 1927, on Piazza della Repubblica. It closes in January 2027 for a two-year restoration.
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Hotel Spadari Al Duomo
A 1950s building converted in 1991, with interiors by Ugo La Pietra that the third-generation owners have left largely alone.
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Senato Hotel Milano
The Ranza family's home for four generations. Alessandro Bianchi's conversion moved the original front door to the garden and gilded it.
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Excelsior Hotel Gallia, a Luxury Collection Hotel
Finished in 1927, it opened on leap day 1932, delayed by Milano Centrale. It still faces the station.
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Hotel VIU Milan, a Member of Design Hotels
Arassociati, 2017: two of its facades are planted walls, jasmine and climbing rose up eight floors of glass.