Grand Hotel des Bains

This vast belle époque hotel once epitomised Lido glamour, but it's been boarded up since 2016 – an oversized symbol of the beach resort's fall from fashion. It was famously the setting for Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice, along with Luchino Visconti's 1971 film adaptation.

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