Rigi Kulm Hotel
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The Rigi Kulm Hotel is located immediately below the 1,798 metres summit of Mount Rigi in the Alps in the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland, about 10 miles south of Zurich and 8 mi east of Lucerne. Opened
The hotel in 2017, looking northwest
Looking north. From left to right: Lake Lucerne, Lake Zug and the Rigi Kulm Hotel
c. 1905
Mittelholzer Rigi vor 1920
César Ritz
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César Ritz was a Swiss businessman, hotelier and pioneer of the travel industry. He most notably founded several hotels most famously the Hôtel Ritz in Paris and the Ritz and Carlton Hotels in London.
Rigi Kulm Hotel
…Bavaria was one of the hotel's guests. A tea set he brought is on display in the dining room of today's hotel. Schreiber died in 1912. Swiss hotelier César Ritz was the manager of the hotel when an incident occurred that changed his career. The central heating at the hotel broke during a frigid day, and a group…
Ritz with wife Marie-Louise in 1888. They had two sons.