In the 1970s and 1980s celebrities staying at Edinburgh's more stately hotels were guided to the Cosmo Ristorante.

Several wealthy families built huge estates in the town, and vacationers continued to flock to stay at the stately hotels and to enjoy the beaches.

Several stately hotels overlook the harbor, town square and miniature strand lined with pubs and shops.

Not surprisingly, this stately 377-room hotel, about 50 years old, with its big rooms and thick walls, has long been popular with musicians, dancers and actors.

You walk through the Francois I, the stately hotel in the center of town named for the king who was born here.

Perched on a rocky cliff facing the Atlantic, the stately hotel is set on 10 acres of tropical gardens.

They found a large stately hotel in downtown Denver with a uniformed doorman who arranged for the car to be parked.

That it was in the town's most ancient and stately hotel didn't matter.

The stately hotel was the site in 1944 of an international monetary conference that set the gold standard.

The stately hotel, abandoned and left in ruins, was finally demolished at the start of the twenty-first century to return the site to its original beauty.