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Starhotels Collezione hotels
Historic city houses keep their separate stories within a collection that supports Italian craft.
Starhotels Collezione brings historic houses together within the Fabri family’s hotel company, from Italian palazzi to London townhouses and city addresses in Paris and New York. Ferruccio Fabri founded Starhotels in 1980, and his daughter Elisabetta now leads a collection whose character comes from the individual building.
11 Starhotels Collezione hotels in 4 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by the Fabri family
- Worldwide: 16 operating hotels across Italy, London, Paris, Lugano, and New York as of September 2026; Teatro, Duomo, and Gabrielli apartment products are excluded. Official Collezione locator
- On the atlas: 4 Core Luxury, 4 Accessible Luxury, 3 Near Luxury
History
Many of these hotels had long histories before they joined Starhotels Collezione. A sixteenth-century Roman guesthouse became Hotel d’Inghilterra, while a Florentine palazzo became the Helvetia & Bristol in 1885. The collection brings those individual stories together while keeping the buildings and their local character central to the stay.
Timeline
- 1845 — A mid-sixteenth-century guesthouse opposite Palazzo Torlonia becomes Hotel d'Angleterre, for the British on Via Bocca di Leone.
- 1856 — Andreas Perkhofer opens an inn in the Gabrieli family's Gothic palace on the Riva degli Schiavoni.
- 1885 — Giacomo Mosca, from Romansh Switzerland, turns a Florence palazzo into the hotel that takes the Helvetia & Bristol name.
- 1892 — William Kirby opens serviced rooms at 189 and 190 Queen's Gate, the future Gore, with a hydraulic lift and carriages at the door.
- 1911 — Savoia Excelsior's lower floors take guests on 18 June, in time for the launch of the Viribus Unitis. The upper floors follow in 1912.
- 1926 — H. Craig Severance's Spanish Renaissance hotel opens in Manhattan, later the Taft, the building that will yield The Michelangelo.
- 1950 — Rosa Grand Milano is on the record as a hotel by the Duomo.
- 1980 — Ferruccio Fabri founds Starhotels in Florence.
- 1992 — Starhotels buys the hotel portion of the old Taft for $42 million and reopens it as The Michelangelo. Four Victorian townhouses at 22-28 Egerton Gardens become The Franklin.
- 2005 — Starhotels buys Castille on Rue Cambon, its first hotel in France.
- 2009 — Savoia Excelsior reopens after nearly three years of restoration and hosts part of that year's G8. The Franklin closes.
- 2014 — Starhotels buys The Franklin and has owned The Gore since this year.
- 2016 — The Franklin reopens after Anouska Hempel's redesign. Helvetia & Bristol enters the Collezione.
- 2019 — The company launches "La Grande Bellezza – The Dream Factory," a patronage project for Italian craft. Acqua alta puts six feet of lagoon through Hotel Gabrielli and closes it.
- 2021 — Helvetia & Bristol breaks through into the old Banco di Roma next door. Anouska Hempel designs twenty-five more rooms. The spa goes into the bank vaults.
- 2025 — Hotel Gabrielli reopens on 25 August with 66 rooms, down from 105. The Hermitage in Forte dei Marmi joins the Collezione.
The houses to know
- Hotel d'Inghilterra Rome, Rome, Italy — A hotel since 1845 on Via Bocca di Leone, 88 rooms, a Forbes Travel Guide four-star in 2026.
- Savoia Excelsior Palace Trieste, Trieste, Italy — A hotel finished against a naval deadline: lower floors open on 18 June 1911 for the launch of the Viribus Unitis.
- Hotel Gabrielli Venice, Venice, Italy — A Gothic palace from 1371 on the Riva degli Schiavoni, an inn since 1856, reopened 25 August 2025 with 66 rooms.
- The Franklin London, Starhotels Collezione, London, United Kingdom — Four Victorian townhouses on Egerton Gardens, dark from 2009, reopened by Anouska Hempel in 2016.
- Castille Paris - Starhotels Collezione, Paris, France — Three eighteenth-century houses on Rue Cambon, Starhotels' first hotel in France, with Chanel next door.
- Helvetia & Bristol Firenze - Starhotels Collezione, Florence, Italy — A Swiss family's 1885 hotel on Via dei Pescioni, with a 2021 wing by Anouska Hempel inside an old bank.
- Splendid Venice, Venice, Italy — A Collezione house in Cannaregio, the northern sestiere. An opening year and a room count have not been published.
- Hermitage Hotel & Resort, Forte dei Marmi, Forte dei Marmi, Italy — A Versilia beach resort that joined the Collezione in 2025, on the marble coast.
Newest openings
- Hotel Gabrielli Venice reopened on 25 August 2025 under Starhotels Collezione: 66 rooms, cut from 105, in the Gothic palace on the Riva degli Schiavoni, with one of central Venice's larger private gardens.
- Hermitage Hotel & Resort, Forte dei Marmi joined the Collezione in 2025. It had been an independent Versilia resort. A room count and the year the building first opened have not been published.
Opening next
- No next Collezione hotel, with a city and a year, is confirmed in the eleven files.
Every Starhotels Collezione hotel on the atlas
Italy
- Hotel d'Inghilterra Rome — Rome · Core Luxury
- Hotel Gabrielli Venice — Venice · Core Luxury
- Savoia Excelsior Palace Trieste — Trieste · Core Luxury
- Helvetia & Bristol Firenze - Starhotels Collezione — Florence · Accessible Luxury
- Hermitage Hotel & Resort, Forte dei Marmi — Forte dei Marmi · Accessible Luxury
- Splendid Venice — Venice · Accessible Luxury
- Rosa Grand Milano — Milan · Near Luxury
United Kingdom
- The Franklin London, Starhotels Collezione — London · Core Luxury
- The Gore London – Starhotels Collezione — London · Near Luxury
France
- Castille Paris - Starhotels Collezione — Paris · Accessible Luxury
United States
- The Michelangelo New York — New York City · Near Luxury
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