Hotel Banke Opera, Autograph Collection, Paris
Hotel Banke Opera, Autograph Collection
The Hotel Banke is an elegant five-star hotel located in the Opera neighborhood, home to one of the city’s most exclusive shopping center, and just steps away from the Place Vendôme and twenty minutes from the Louvre. A historical location, where during the XVIII and XIX centuries was the Palace and gardens of Queen Hortense, wife of Louis Bonaparte. And it was in that palace where Napoleon III was born. The palace was demolished in 1899 to create Rue Pillet-Will. Occupying the premises of a former bank headquarters and refurbished as a hotel in 2009, the Hotel Banke is housed in an early twentieth-century building, the work of architects Paul Friesé and Cassien Bernard. Its stately facade dominates the corner of Rue La Fayette and Rue Pillet-Will with a style that revives the charms of Paris’s “Belle Époque“.