Grande Albergo Internazionale
- Type
- Historic palaces
- Area
- City centre
- Time
- about 10 min
- When
- any time, evenings included
The Grande Albergo Internazionale was born in the nineteenth century with the Indian Mail, the steamship line that from 1870 to 1914 linked London and Bombay by way of Brindisi.
Kings, nobles and wealthy merchants bound for India passed through its rooms. And in 1943-44, when Brindisi was for a few months the capital of Italy, King Victor Emmanuel III stayed here too.
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