Once upon a palace: Formanyelv and Richmond International create a fairy-tale setting at the Four Seasons Hotel in Budapest.(Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest)(on the remembrance of Englishman Sir Thomas Gresham)

From: Hotels | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: Block, Annie | Copyright information

Englishman Sir Thomas Gresham was a 16th-century financial guru. In addition to amassing private wealth as a banker, he served as King Edward VI's royal agent in Antwerp, Belgium, and founded the London stock exchange in 1565. Today his legacy lives on at the Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest.

The palace itself has an equally storied past. Originally an 1827 private residence, it was purchased in 1903 by London's Gresham Life Insurance Company (which owed its na...

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