| Located on Syntagma
Square, the King George II was originally built as a small urban palace
that served as an annex to the Palace, which then occupied the building
that houses Greece’s Parliament on the square’s eastern side.
Later, it served briefly as the prime minister’s residence before
being acquired by a Greek businessman who added several floors and converted
it into a hotel. One of its first guests was King George II, who made
it his haunt. In the Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies, it was also the
favourite hotel of international celebrities, magnates, world leaders,
and movie stars like Aristotle Onassis and Maria Kallas, Grace Kelly and
Prince Rainier of Monaco, Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Frank Sinatra,
and Francois Mitterand. |
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