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St Pancras Renaissance Hotel - London

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After a million dollar restoration, the old building of London's St Pancras station to welcome guests back on a five-star hotel. The red bricks have lost 150 tons of dust and ceilings lined with gold leaf shine again. Welcome to St Pancras Renaissance Hotel.

The train from St Pancras in London , is a symbol of British railways. When he began to be built, in 1866 the large impressed Europe and marked a peak time of the railroad that crossed the United Kingdom. Some years later, in 1873, the British pride to swell again with the opening of the Midland Grand Hotel, a gigantic building of red brick neo-Gothic facade involving the station and gave an area often elitist.

In 1935 the Midland Grand was turned into railway offices, and little by little, the building was lost grandeur. And though I have been recovered after the German air raids in London during World War II, seemed to have announced an end, which came in 1985 when the offices were abandoned and the bats took over the huge space vacant.

Now, after six years of work during which total expenditures were 170 million euros, the old building regained the brightness of the nineteenth century and re-open its doors with a new name but the same Victorian elegance. The large ornate walls, the beautiful and intricate wrought iron, ceilings lined with gold leaf - especially the suites, which reach five feet tall - and emblematic staircase wood that has been considered the most majestic country of his majesty are again to the eye. Guests at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, five star hotels, operated by the Marriott chain, have 245 quarters available, an underground pool, a spa and adapted to each ticket romantic restaurant and bar.

The St. Pancras station itself, important for high-speed trains that cross the country and one of seven (four in the UK, two in France and one in Belgium ) where the Eurostar stops running through the Channel, too underwent extensive rehabilitation. The red bricks were cleaned of 150 tons of dust that covered them and the complex metal structure that supports the roof of the station received twenty thousand square meters of blue ink. this is no longer the world's largest enclosed space, but still has the largest coverage of station on the planet, with more than seventy feet long and thirty high. Impressive numbers for an impressive hotel.

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