The charm of the Grand Visconti Palace
lies in its ability to place its guests into a dimension of welcome
comprising atmospheres, feelings and areas in which they can take care
of themselves, and settings far away from the bustle and noise to relax
and work in.
At the Grand Visconti Palace, you are in
the heart of lived - in Milan, the Milan of the
Milanese. In a district which sprang up at the beginning of the 20th
century, with straight roads and beautiful precise buildings now known
as Old Milan style.
Close to a railway branch which is no longer in use, a
building stands on the area of one of the reference points of
industrial Milan. From 1920 onwards this area accommodated the Verga
Mill: trains used to come right into the courtyard to load flour to be
transported all over Italy.
Nowadays that courtyard, which houses the bedrooms, the Health
Centre and the Conference Centre, is an
extraordinary spacious green area in the Italian garden style.
A hotel that is both modern and old, classical but without
trimmings, fashionable but without being trendy, and sober, elegant and
true, the Grand Visconti Palace presents itself
forward as a dynamic, versatile reality - an area to experience as a
natural, prestigious location for events, shows, exhibitions, fashion
shows and much more besides.
The Grand Visconti Palace is the only City
Resort in Milan.
HistoryThe city's image has always been linked with the world of
work, and hotel guests' choices of hotel are made almost exclusively in
order to optimize the time available, with their own wellbeing often
taking second place.
Up to now it was not thought that "A Resort in the
City" could be realized in Italy's economic capital: so the
owners created a green oasis in an attempt to offer the guests the
chance to take care of themselves before and after a busy working day,
and to rediscover the pleasant feeling of treating themselves to a
little calm and relaxation.
After thinking up and realizing this project from the
structural point of view, the desire was to satisfy your needs and
humour your expectations.
Their wish was to reintroduce the pleasure of "offering
hospitality" which was in use last century in grand hotels throughout
the world, when the doorman was the butler, the barman the keeper of
secrets and the manager the watchful, discrete landlord.
The Verga Mill stood in a 12,000 square
metre area situated in a central position with easy access, on 1920.
The mill later became the premises of a famous biscuit factory, which
moved elsewhere at the end of the ’90s.
On September 2001, a building in the heart
of Milan came up: part of the building was refurbished and another part
was demolished and rebuilt with the specific desire of maintaining
intact the design of the old building which dated back to the early
years of last century.
The intention was to capture the charm which only period
buildings can transmit, and to allow it to be experienced in the future.
172 rooms, a conference centre, a banqueting hall, a
restaurant, a health centre with an indoor swimming pool, a park, a
garage with spaces for 70 cars and a car-park for 3 coaches complete
the offering.
For the name of the hotel, they chose the name of an important
Lordship - the Viscontis, who from the end of the
fourteenth century and the beginning of the fifteenth century were in
charge of what was the largest and most powerful state of Italy at that
time. Tradition united with innovation.
The names of the rooms are those of the main city gates of
Milan, while for the restaurant and the bar they opted for more
original and modern names, playing on the letter “V” in their logo.
Thus the “Al V Piano” restaurant
(corresponding exactly to the floor on which it is situated) and the “Visavis”
Bar (intentionally Italianized in the writing) came into being.
The Grand Visconti Palace hotel in Milan
is situated a few minutes away from Porta Romana,
one of the ancient city gates which marked the border of the centre of
old Milan.
The hotel is located in a residential area rich in commerce,
and if you walk along Corso Lodi and Corso di Porta Romana you can
admire some characteristic Milanese shops.
After Piazza Missori you will reach Piazza del Duomo and the
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele arcade.
Motorways:
"Autostrada del Sole" motorway (A1) - Rogoredo exit on the "tangenziale
Est" orbital.
Milan to Venice motorway (A4) - Rogoredo exit on the "tangenziale Est"
orbital.
Public Transport:
Underground: Line 3 (the Yellow line). Lodi T.I.B.B. station: 150 m.
Bus: 90, 91 and 92: 100 m.
Ferrovie dello Stato railway: Central Station: 2 km.
Ferrovie Nord railway: Cadorna Station: 5 km.
Restaurant "Al V piano" - both by name and in reality.
Overlooking the roofs of Milan, it is accessed via a lift.
It is a cosy area with a half arched ceiling, a large antique
mirror as scene design, ostrich chairs and design lamps.
The design is essential but not cold - modern classicality in
every shade of dove-grey and sand. The restaurant is the realm of
light, but sophisticated cuisine based on the Mediterranean influence
while daring to effect some creative touches, and without neglecting
the great classic Lombardy and Milanese dishes and some old dishes.
Fusion and reminiscence are the words which chef likes to use
for summing up his cuisine.
The Salone Visconti is available for banquets and functions.
Bright and elegant, its large windows overlook the park.
Compared with Milan's other cocktail bars, the Visavis is the
ideal solution for enjoying spending time in.
The Visavis bar is the place for
pre-dinner drinks and informal
meetings in an intimate setting, in which to enjoy the best cocktails
or even just a coffee.
Named Visavis precisely because it is vis-à-vis or face to
face, you can come here with colleagues to discuss matters, with
friends to joke with them, with your partner or soul mate to make
plans, or sometimes even on your own to do some thinking.
Every week, the winter garden of the Grand Visconti
Palace is transformed into "Not Just Jazz" - the most
intimate and appealing of Milanese music clubs, and a stage for
thrilling live appearances open not only to the hotel guests but also
to all music lovers, not just jazz buffs.
Not Just Jazz was born thanks to the specific desire of
General Manager Claudio Gnoni, who right from the very beginning wished
to strongly connote the hotel as a meeting place for musical and
cultural events.
The idea behind the project was to create a veritable
"cultural salon", a club promoting the quality music culture and which
would abolish the artificial barriers between the public and the
artists to allow exchanges of ideas and a refreshing reciprocal
transfer of emotions, ideas and perceptions.
The intuition of the founders of Not Just Jazz was to bring
Jazz to the hotel, by moving into Italy a means of exploitation that is
unusual here but absolutely normal in the USA, and without neglecting
other types of music on condition that it is high level music.
The programming is managed with skill and passion by the Art
Directors of the Grand Visconti Palace. It puts
forward all "colours" of Jazz music and other music too, through
concerts and evenings with artists of national and international
importance.
In addition, the hotel's art directors can offer any type of
artistic service on a "turnkey" basis for functions, events and
conferences.
The Grand Visconti Palace can boast a
green area of rare beauty.
The park is a masterpiece of simplicity, and yet it has all
the character of a classical Italian garden with an English-style
lawn.Gneiss stonework marks out its design. There are hedges of
intoxicating lavender and a fountain spurts horizontally with its jets
in almost musical succession.
Two huge braziers are ready to light up in summer Lounge
evenings.
Three theatrical cast-iron gazebos house an open-air bar,
tables and sofas. One of these gazebos can also be used in the cooler
seasons, as it can be fully closed like a conservatory as protection
from the wind and the cold.
Cane chaise longues appear among the flowers in the garden at
the start of spring.
As well as the braziers, the lovely pool in the health centre
appears through a large glass window.
The hotel has 162 rooms of the Classic,
Quality and Exclusive type, and 10
Suites ranging from the Junior Suites to the Tower
Suite.
The rooms
Sophisticated decoration, precious Italian polychromatic marble, and
Murano crystal lamps and lights cocoon the guests in an atmosphere rich
in warmth and solid elegance.
The Grand Visconti Palace has rooms for
the disabled, and two floors of the building are reserved for
non-smokers.
The exquisitely classical style of the furniture is matched by
the innovation and practicalness of the complements - in fact all rooms
have a WI-FI connection, ISDN telephone wiring and satellite TV with
pay per view.
Some rooms are half-corner rooms while others extend into a
bow-window, and every room has a unique flavour thanks to the history
of this industrial architecture. But who knows, perhaps that is only
because of the flavour of Milan which comes in through the windows.
Room Facilities
- Minibar
- Safe-deposit box for laptop computer
- Bathroom telephone
- Satellite TV with pay per view, Sky Italia
- Independent temperature control
- Air conditioning
- WI-FI Internet connection for laptops
- ADSL telephone lines
- Smoke detectors
- Fire alarm
- All rooms are soundproofed
The Suites
While the bedrooms are classical, many of the suites have been given
touches of a slight minimalist design, for tastes which are
sophisticated but not traditional.
The hotel has 4 Junior Suites, 3
Executive Suites, 2 Grand Suites and the
exclusive Tower Suite.
The latter, which extends over 120 sq. m. and three floors
linked by a winding staircase and a private lift, gives guests the
excitement of a view of the roofs of Milan and the spires of the
cathedral while they relax in the comfort of the Jacuzzi in the mini
pool.
Suite Facilities
- Minibar
- Safe-deposit box for laptop computer
- Bathroom telephone
- Satellite TV with pay per view
- Independent temperature control - Air-conditioning
- WI-FI Internet connection for laptop computers
- ADSL telephone lines
- Plasma screen
- Marble bathroom with Jacuzzi
- Bathroom with shower
- Walk-in wardrobe
- All suites are soundproofed
