Hilton HHonors - SAVE YOUR POINTS!! --TWO FIRSTS FOR HILTON INTERNATIONAL

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">TWO FIRSTS FOR HILTON INTERNATIONAL

March 14, 2003



London -- Hilton International, today revealed plans for two major hotel developments in Moscow, Russia and Venice, Italy. The 436 guest-room, five star Hilton Red Square, Moscow will be situated on Red Square adjacent to The Kremlin and minutes from the Maly and Bolshoi theatres. Due to open early in 2006, Hilton will manage the hotel on behalf of developer Red Square Company, who is building the hotel on the site of the former Intourist hotel....




The Molino Stucky Hilton, Venice is scheduled to open early 2005 boasting 380 guest-rooms over eight floors. Situated on the island of la Giudecca, five minutes from St Marks Square in the centre of Venice, the hotel will offer two restaurants, a terrace overlooking the city, horizon pool and a fitness & beauty centre. A 7500 sq. metre conference centre will cater for up to 1500 delegates.The 31,000 sq. metre historic former pasta mill is being developed by Acqua Pia Antica Marcia. Plans for the new hotel will not alter the façade or industrial structure of the original Molino Stucky mill, which was Venice’s first gothic revival building, originally built in 1895....</font>


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[This message has been edited by NJUPINTHEAIR (edited 03-17-2003).]

What does Stucky mean in Italian? Anything?

After road tripping as a kid, I really dislike the name stucky, stuckies etc. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

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"Save your points" --- at the rate they're being devalued I'll certainly have to start saving now... these hotels won't open for a few years.

Stucky is not an Italian word I'm familiar with, but there is/was a Count Stucky in Italy.

Definitely not an Italian word. Probably the name of the previous mill owner, who *might* have been of Austrian (Austro-Hungarian?) origin. Venice was under Austro-Hungarian rule from roughly 1815 to 1867 (if I remember my grade school history correctly). Some currently Italian areas just north and north-east of the city remained part of the Austro-Hungarian empire until its dissolution immediately after WWI.

There, you didn't ask for a hystory lesson, but you got one anyway.

I wonder if the one in Moscow is taking over all or part of the Hotel Rossia. They could certainly use the "Hilton touch". They still had the old style "Stalin touch" when I stayed there 7 - 8 years ago.

JP

j379pa:


No, as the rest of the article stated, it is being built on the place where they just tore down the old 1970's Intourist hotel.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by honu:

Some currently Italian areas just north and north-east of the city remained part of the Austro-Hungarian empire until its dissolution immediately after WWI.

There, you didn't ask for a hystory lesson, but you got one anyway. </font>

Yes, it is known as the Trentino, and it was part of the stated war aims of Italy when it entered the war in 1915, breaking it original pact with Germany and Austria-Hungary as one of the Central Powers.

The area contained the crucial Brenner Pass which would allow a direct invasion route into Italy in the hands of another power and that is why Italy wanted to obtain that territory.

Incidentally, the region is still overwhelmingly German, with signs in both languages, and if you watch the Winter Olympics, many of the Italians have Germanic surnames.

Finally, the town of Bolzano/Bozen is the home of the Neolithic "Iceman" that was found on one of the Glaciers nearby.