MONUMENTAL PALACE HOTEL THE WORLD OF HOSPITALITY 5
Completely redesigned, the transformation
of the building into a grand luxury hotel has
required redefining all volumes to create a
central gourmet restaurant, coupled with a
breakfast room upstairs while unfolds the cafe
skillfully transformed into a brasserie.
The luxury of the details and ornaments that
run through each space helps to bring this
reinvention to life. From the library, the TV room
and the spa that seems to have been added in
the 70s, restaurants can still host an orchestra
and help maintain this legend of Porto’s great
music cafes.
Who better than the duo OITOEMPONTO
to want to contribute to restore Porto’s
hospitality and give back all its letters of
nobility to this historical building and to make
the city of Porto shine. Them who travel the
world in the best conditions, always come
back with the same pleasure in their fief, have
doubled their intelligence and ability to make
Monumental Porto the hotel of reference of
their city by succeeding a very daring exercise
of style, a successful work of re-enchantment
with the panache and ease that characterize
them.For decades these cafes have become
very important in Porto, first becoming an
economic capital and then a student city whose
youngsters, who had no heating at home, spent
a good part of the day in these cafes to study
and discuss while staying warm. Furthermore,
it’s also where people dance because each café
has its own orchestra to attract, entertain and
keep customer’s loyalty.
After the Second World War, the building also
hosts a first class pension with various dining
rooms before being converted into an office
building and then occupied by a car dealer on
the ground floor before collapsing and falling
into for ten years, until it was bought to become
the reference hotel in Porto.