| Grand Hotel Quisisana | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Capri,Campania,Italy |
| Coordinates | 40°32′58″N14°14′39″E / 40.54944°N 14.24417°E /40.54944; 14.24417 |
| Opening | 1861 |
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| Number of rooms | 148 |
| Number of restaurants | 3 |
| Website | |
| quisisana.com | |
TheGrand Hotel Quisisana is the largest hotel on the island ofCapri.[1] It is located in the old town of Capri, opposite to the Hotel Residenza Capri and the Villa Sanfelice, to the south of thePiazza Umberto I.[2] It was founded as a sanatorium in 1845 by the British doctor George Sidney Clark, who turned it into the Grand Hotel Quisisana in 1861.[3] "Qui si sana" means "here one heals" in Italian.[3]
The hotel contains 148 rooms.[2] It has eight conference rooms, one of which can accommodate up to 500 people.[2] The hotel's indoor restaurant,Restaurant Quisi, serves Italian cuisine and has been cited as one of Italy's finest hotel restaurants.[2]
Notable guests of the hotel include Russian writerMaxim Gorky, Russian singerFeodor Chaliapin,Oscar Wilde (together withLord Alfred Douglas) andFriedrich Alfred Krupp.[4][5] Other notable guests have beenTom Cruise,Sidney Sheldon,Gianni Agnelli,Claudette Colbert,Jean-Paul Sartre,Gerald Ford, andSting. After escapingEgypt in 1952,King Farouk I was a guest of the hotel during part of his exile in Italy.[6]
Since 1986, the Grand Hotel has been a member ofThe Leading Hotels of the World.[3]
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