Why you should experience Hotel NH Milano Machiavelli in Milan, Italy.
Hotel NH Milano Machiavelli is a composed urban hotel where Porta Venezia's nineteenth-century expansion, Lazzaretto history, metropolitan commerce and layered architectural character converge between Corso Buenos Aires and the Bastioni.
Set along Via Lazzaretto near Via Camillo Finocchiaro Aprile and just steps from Viale Vittorio Veneto, the hotel stands on the western boundary of the former Lazzaretto, a 14-hectare enclosure demolished after 1881 as its grounds became the dense orthogonal quarter that still defines this part of Porta Venezia. The modern building turns away from that compact street grid through a barrel-vaulted glazed interior and a garden-facing veranda, creating an unexpectedly open sequence behind the urban frontage. Timber surfaces, terrazzo flooring, neutral guestrooms and the planted Niccolò Restaurant & Bar Terrace give the property a calmer internal character within one of Central Milan's busiest commercial districts. The result is a hotel where the spatial legacy of the vanished Lazzaretto meets a modern interior organized around light, timber and a protected garden at the center of Porta Venezia.
What you should know about Hotel NH Milano Machiavelli.
Hotel NH Milano Machiavelli is best known for a development history that began years before Jolly Hotels established the property as one of its Milan addresses. Studio Montanari & Partners worked on the new Jolly Hotel Machiavelli from 1988 through 1998, undertaking executive architectural design and construction direction for clients Lazzaretto Finocchiaro Aprile S.r.l. and Jolly Hotel. The project represented an investment of €6.8 million and produced the modern building that still occupies Via Lazzaretto 5. Jolly Hotels acquired Hotel Machiavelli in 2000 during an expansion that also brought Hotel Tiepolo in Vicenza, Hotel Pontevecchio in Lecco, Hotel Marina in Genoa and Hotel Villa Carpegna in Rome into the Italian company. Fabio Ubiali assumed management of Jolly Hotel Machiavelli that August, beginning a two-year tenure at the property as Jolly consolidated its newly expanded portfolio. By 2005 the Via Lazzaretto hotel was established as a 103-room Jolly property and hosted the Italian Stata Users Group meeting that October. The original development, Jolly acquisition and early years under Ubiali consequently establish a decade-long progression from purpose-designed hotel project to a fully integrated member of one of Italy's largest hospitality groups.
The hotel's next chapter emerged from the combination of Jolly Hotels with Spain's NH Hoteles, which already held a 20 percent interest in the Italian company before pursuing control in 2006. NH Italia, Joker Partecipazioni and Banca Intesa agreed that November to form Grande Jolly, with NH Italia holding 51 percent of the venture created to control Jolly Hotels. NH subsequently entered 2007 with an Italian position strengthened by the acquisition of both Jolly and Framon, bringing the Spanish group to 341 hotels across 21 countries as the former Jolly portfolio entered a wider international network. Jolly Hotel Machiavelli retained its original name during the transition, hosting conferences under that title in 2007 and 2008 even as the ownership change advanced. The property later adopted the NH name and today remains a 103-room member of NH Hotels & Resorts under Minor Hotels Europe & Americas. Its current Caffè Niccolò and garden-facing Niccolò Restaurant & Bar Terrace extend the hotel's contemporary chapter inside the same Via Lazzaretto building inherited from Jolly. The progression from Jolly's Italian expansion through the NH combination and into the present Minor Hotels era gives the Machiavelli a direct place within one of the consequential consolidations of European hospitality during the early twenty-first century.
How to fold Hotel NH Milano Machiavelli into your trip.
Hotel NH Milano Machiavelli works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing Porta Venezia from Milan's plague enclosure through nineteenth-century urban reconstruction into the Liberty architecture created as the district entered the twentieth century.
Begin at San Carlo al Lazzaretto, the surviving church from the immense quarantine complex constructed between 1488 and 1513, where Cardinal Carlo Borromeo commissioned Pellegrino Tibaldi to replace the central altar with an octagonal sanctuary after the plague of 1576. Construction began in 1585, and the open-sided design allowed religious services to remain visible from the surrounding enclosure, leaving the church as the principal architectural survivor after the Lazzaretto was dismantled during the nineteenth century. Continue to Palazzo Luraschi, built between 1881 and 1887 by Ferdinando Luraschi on ground released by that demolition and conceived as one of the new quarter's most imposing residential buildings. Luraschi reused four columns from the demolished enclosure inside the courtyard, surrounded them with twelve medallions depicting characters from Alessandro Manzoni's I promessi sposi and challenged the old Servitù del Resegone height convention with a building rising far beyond the low skyline previously maintained north of the Bastioni. Conclude at Casa Guazzoni, where Giovanni Battista Bossi worked for builder Giacomo Guazzoni between 1904 and 1906 on former ground of the Società Anonima degli Omnibus, whose horse-tram depot disappeared after Edison prevailed in Milan's transition to electric traction. Alessandro Mazzucotelli supplied the wrought iron, sculptural cement decoration covers the facade and restored paintings associated with Paolo Sala accompany an extraordinary hexagonal staircase, turning another superseded piece of urban infrastructure into one of Porta Venezia's richest Liberty residences. The progression moves from Tibaldi's sanctuary at the center of Milan's plague enclosure through Luraschi's reuse of its physical remnants into Bossi and Mazzucotelli's architecture on former horse-tram ground, revealing how successive demolitions and technological changes created the Porta Venezia surrounding Hotel NH Milano Machiavelli.
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