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Tivoli Hotels hotels
Lisbon's grand-hotel tradition travels to coastal retreats, with Portuguese hosting a common thread.
Tivoli carries a Portuguese hotel tradition from Lisbon’s Avenida da Liberdade into a wider collection of city hotels and resorts. The story began with a small pension in the 1920s and developed around the Tivoli name in the following decade, before the company joined Minor Hotels in 2016.
13 Tivoli Hotels hotels in 5 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by Minor Hotels
- Worldwide: 14 to 17 hotels across Portugal, Brazil, Qatar, China, and the Netherlands
- On the atlas: 2 High Luxury, 6 Core Luxury, 5 Accessible Luxury
History
Lisbon’s Tivoli grew through the 1930s and wartime years as travelers sought a base in neutral Portugal. The hotel survived several changes in ownership and helped establish a wider Portuguese collection. Minor Hotels’ 2016 acquisition carried that long hospitality history into a new international chapter.
Timeline
- 1926 — José Francisco Cardoso and Joaquim Gonçalves Machaz open a small pension across from Lisbon's Cinema Tivoli, adopting the cinema's name.
- 1930 — The pair moves into the rented Palacete Rosa Damasceno across the block and opens the 45-room Hotel Tivoli in June.
- 1933 — Hotel Tivoli Lisboa is formally founded in March on the Avenida da Liberdade, days after the start of Portugal's Estado Novo regime; the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War both drive early demand for the hotel.
- 1955 — The Tivoli owners accept a government invitation to manage the historic Palácio de Seteais in Sintra.
- 1961 — A new modernist Hotel Tivoli, designed by architect Pardal Monteiro and featuring a panoramic rooftop restaurant, opens in Sintra.
- 2006 — Tivoli begins international expansion, acquiring its first Brazilian property, Tivoli Ecoresort Praia do Forte in Salvador da Bahia.
- 2009 — Tivoli São Paulo – Mofarrej opens in February, followed by Tivoli Victoria in Vilamoura, Portugal, the same year.
- 2016 — Minor International completes its acquisition of the Tivoli brand and its Portuguese and Brazilian portfolio for €294.2 million.
- 2018–2022 — Under Minor's ownership, Tivoli expands to the Middle East with three Qatar properties (2018) and to Asia with Tivoli Chengdu Cultural Heritage Park in China (2022).
The houses to know
- Tivoli Doelen Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands — An 81-room hotel on the exact site of the Kloveniersdoelen, the musketeers' meeting hall whose great room once displayed Rembrandt's The Night Watch after he delivered the rolled-up canvas in 1642.
- Tivoli Mofarrej São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil — A 23-story 1986 tower overlooking Trianon Park that has worn three flags in four decades, Sheraton, then Gran Meliá, then Tivoli, while the Mofarrej family who built it never sold.
- Tivoli Palazzo Gaddi Firenze, Florence, Italy — An 86-room palazzo conversion in Florence, joining Tivoli's Portuguese-rooted portfolio as one of its first Italian addresses.
- Tivoli Avenida Liberdade Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal — The hotel carries Tivoli’s founding Lisbon story along Avenida da Liberdade.
- Tivoli Ecoresort Praia do Forte, Praia do Forte, Brazil — Coconut groves and reef-protected beaches give the resort its ecological setting at Praia do Forte.
- Tivoli Palacio de Seteais, Sintra, Portugal — The eighteenth-century villa gives Tivoli a historic retreat within Sintra’s hills.
- Tivoli Portopiccolo Sistiana Wellness Resort & Spa, Sistiana, Italy — A 58-room wellness resort on the Gulf of Trieste's small marina village of Portopiccolo, built into cliffs above the Adriatic.
- Tivoli Carvoeiro Algarve Resort, Carvoeiro, Portugal — Tivoli has held the Vale Covo cliffs above Praia do Vale Covo since 1991.
Newest openings
- Tivoli Maiorana Belém Pará Hotel — Belém, Brazil — opened 2026.
- Tivoli Palazzo Gaddi Firenze — Florence, Italy — opened 2024.
- Tivoli Portopiccolo Sistiana Wellness Resort & Spa — Sistiana, Italy — opened 2023.
Opening next
- No confirmed announcements were identified in the sources reviewed through 2026-08-28.
Every Tivoli Hotels hotel on the atlas
Italy
- Tivoli Palazzo Gaddi Firenze — Florence · Core Luxury
- Tivoli Portopiccolo Sistiana Wellness Resort & Spa — Sistiana · Core Luxury
- Tivoli Palazzo 1880 Lecce Hotel — Lecce · Accessible Luxury
- Tivoli President Milano Hotel — Milan · Accessible Luxury
Portugal
- Tivoli Avenida Liberdade Lisboa — Lisbon · Core Luxury
- Tivoli Carvoeiro Algarve Resort — Carvoeiro · Core Luxury
- Tivoli Palacio de Seteais — Sintra · Core Luxury
- Tivoli Kopke Porto Gaia Hotel — Porto · Accessible Luxury
Brazil
- Tivoli Mofarrej São Paulo — São Paulo · High Luxury
- Tivoli Ecoresort Praia do Forte — Praia do Forte · Core Luxury
- Tivoli Maiorana Belém Pará Hotel — Belém · Accessible Luxury
China
- Tivoli Chengdu at Cultural Heritage Park — Chengdu · Accessible Luxury
Netherlands
- Tivoli Doelen Amsterdam — Amsterdam · High Luxury
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