Hotel d'Angleterre

Why it is renowned

The d'Angleterre is counted among the first deluxe hotels in the world and has long been the address in Copenhagen for visiting heads of state, writers and performers, from Winston Churchill and Karen Blixen to Grace Kelly.¹ Condé Nast Traveler put it on its Gold List of the best hotels in the world in 2015, and its restaurant, Marchal, holds a Michelin star.¹ Alfred Hitchcock filmed scenes of Torn Curtain, released in 1966, in the hotel.¹²

The story

The hotel dates its founding to 1755, when the French valet Jean Marchal and his wife Maria Coppy, daughter of the royal chef, moved their restaurant to Kongens Nytorv and added rooms for guests.² The restaurateur Gottfried Rau later named it Hotel d'Angleterre after the English Club that met there.² After the fire of 1795 the hotel moved into the building it still occupies; C. F. Tietgen and the Carlsberg founder I. C. Jacobsen had it enlarged in 1872 to 1875 to the designs of Vilhelm Dahlerup and Georg E. W. Møller.²¹ The German command lived here during the occupation from 1940.² The Remmen Foundation bought the hotel in 1993, and after a long restoration it reopened in 2013.²¹ It has 92 rooms, 55 of them suites, a spa, a pâtisserie and a Champagne bar.²

What to know it by

• MarchalThe hotel's restaurant, with one Michelin star
• Palm CourtGlass-roofed hall with palms and marble pillars
• The Louis XVI1875The oldest ballroom, first called the White Hall
• Christmas lights1995Thousands of lights on the façade each December