Inaugurated on May 31, 1959 as a five-star establishment, since its inception it has had illustrious clients or visitors such as Umberto II of Italy, King Feisal, Baudouin of Belgium, the Empress Soraya of Persia, the Princes Prince Rainier III and Grace of Monaco, the Dukes of Windsor, the King of Belgium Albert II, Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Mary Pickford, Ingrid Bergman, Rock Hudson, Sofia Loren, Carlo Ponti, Kim Novak, Orson Welles, Boris Karloff, Raf Vallone, Marlon Brando, Peter Ustinov, Sean Connery, Anthony Quinn, Trevor Howard, Dirk Bogarde, John Mills, Claudia Cardinale, Raquel Welch, Xavier Cugat, Brigitte Bardot, the Argentine general Perón and the Rothschild barons, among others.