La familia Kraft en Florencia y sus hoteles históricos

1854

Beginning Kraft family's involvement in the hospitality industry in Bern, Switzerland

when Jean Kraft constructed and inaugurated the Hotel Bernerhof

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from 1862

Bernerhof guests

1862

Queen of Napoli

1864

King Leopold of Belgium

1869

Marshall Juan Falcon, President of Venezuela

1894

Rockefeller

1905

Gabriele d'Annunzio

1906

Paderewski

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1878

The youngest son of Jean Kraft, Gerardo leaving his siblings in Berne to manage the Bernerhof, choose to come to Italy, to Turin

to his aunt Constance, who was owner of the Grand Hotel of Turin

1880

He went to Rome to manage the Hotel Quirinale

1883

He married Emma Wegenstein

whose family were the owners of the Hotel Schweizerhof located at the Reno waterfall in Neuhausen

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1883

Gerardo Kraft opened his first hotel in Florence

1897

He bought the Royal Peace Hotel

which he renovated adding a fourth floor and changing its name to Grand Hotel, with 120 rooms and 240 beds

1928

He expanded the Hotel Italia

in Piazza Ognissanti in Florence which became the Hotel Excelsior. It had the same architectural style as the Bernerhof with 170 rooms

1924

The Bernerhof was later handed over to the Swiss Federal Government by the Kraft family

1959

the Kraft family sold both hotels to the CIGA (Compagnia Italiana Grandi Alberghi)

and today they belong to the Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc.. Hermann Kraft, eldest son of Emilio Kraft who was the son of Gerardo Kraft married Ariane von der Weid.

1960

Hermann Kraft restored and transformed Hotel Bianchi Byron in Via Solferino, Florence and renamed it Kraft Hotel

1966

Unexpected flooding of Florence on November 4th

TODAY

The Hotel Kraft is currently run by the daughter of Hermann, Monique Kraft

who continued in the entrepreneurial spirit of her family, by opening a new structure in the Tuscan countryside.

Historia de la Familia Kraft

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