Ever since opening in 1905, it has been one of the most prestigious hotels in Genoa, and it is renowned on an international level for the quality and excellence of the services it offers.
The sumptuous, elegant interior was where nobles held their grand festivities.
Over the years it became a meeting place for famous personages such as Edmondo de Amicis, who wrote, "I left the Bristol with the illusion of having been a great lord for 5 days;" Gabriele D'Annunzio, Luigi Pirandello, Alfred Hitchcock (it seems that during his filming of How to Catch a Thief, he was inspired by the splendid elliptical staircase to use in Vertigo), Vittorio de Sica, the Emperor Hirohito, the Infanta of Spain, Isaac and Lea Rabin, Simon Perez, Rita Levi Montalcini, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Alberto Sordi, Carla Fracci, Rudolf Nureyev and many others.
