The Rake

RICH IN HISTORY, YOUNG AT HEART

If you think Switzerland is worth visiting only for its mountains, you surely haven’t stayed at Les Trois Rois. One of the country’s oldest and finest hotels, it sits on the edge of the Rhine in Basel, a tangible memory of an older, grander Europe. See it and you may forget Venice or the Left Bank of the Seine.

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