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Thai Anantara Celebrates Debut in Austria with New Luxury Resort in Vienna
With the reopening of the Anantara Palais Hansen Vienna, the Thai hotel group Anantara Hotels & Resorts opened its first hotel in Austria in May 2025. The historic building on Schottenring, originally designed by architect Theophil Edvard von Hansen for the 1873 World Exhibition, has been extensively renovated over the past 18 months and repositioned as an urban luxury resort.
After being used as a hotel, residential building, and official building, it returned to the hotel industry in 2013 and was operated by Kempinski until 2024. Since March 2024, it has been operating under the Anantara brand. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Gugerell / CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
The Palais Hansen is not just a luxury hotel, but a monument to Ringstrasse architecture. The original architect, Theophil Edvard von Hansen - namesake of numerous iconic buildings such as the Vienna Musikverein and the Parliament - created a masterpiece of symmetry, monumentality, and ornamental elegance with the Palais. The building's façades are characterized by classical…
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