"With a name like the Grand Hotel Savoia, and a guest book containing the signatures of American presidents and British prime ministers, it’d be reasonable to expect a palace of the gilt-and-marble variety, the sort of place where hardly a lick of paint has been added since the Great War. But you’d be wrong. The reason you’re reading about Cortina’s original grand hotel is that they’ve been rather free with the paint, among other things — the 2009 renovation turned an old-fashioned Alpine classic into a thoroughly contemporary and not at all unstylish Alpine luxury hotel." - Tablet Hotels