Homes, hotels & restaurants

Caux Palace

Type

Belle Époque grand hotel / concert venue

Address

Rue du Panorama 2, 1824 Caux

Built in 1902 at a thousand metres above sea level, clinging to the mountainside above Montreux and served by the Montreux, Glion, Rochers-de-Naye railway, the Caux Palace is one of the great witnesses of the Riviera’s hotel golden age. Its elongated silhouette, its galleries and its hundreds of windows earned it early on a comparison that has stuck: the young pianist Arthur Rubinstein, who stayed there around 1905 when the establishment was only three years old, saw in it “a motionless ocean liner”. The hotel has never stopped hosting music: it is today one of the five venues of the Septembre Musical and receives concerts each autumn, including those of the Émergences musicales. The building, home of Initiatives of Change (IofC), can be visited during the themed days organised by the foundation.

Related artists :Arthur RubinsteinFelix Mendelssohn