Following a tip from David, I booked a two-night stay downtown in a renovated neo-Classical hotel called the Painted Lady Inn at $99 a night.
The elegant, neo-Classical Hotel La Perla (one and a half blocks north of Iglesia La Merced; 505-311-3125; www.laperlaleon.com) offers 15 modern rooms around a lovely courtyard or a small pool.
Elegant The beloved, neo-classical Hotel d'Angleterre reopened in May 2013 after a two-year, down-to-the-studs renovation resulting in 60 expansive suites and 30 standard rooms.
Once considered the "Waldorf-Astoria of Brooklyn," the 12-story classical-style hotel built in 1909 by Louis Bossert, a lumber magnate, has a history that dovetails with the Jehovah's Witnesses' own history in the area since that same year.
This highly rated Neo-classical Hungarian hotel might just have inspired Wes Anderson to write and direct his most recent Academy Award-winning film.
Adam trained as a classical chef at Gleneagles hotel.
Opened two years ago in a 1920s neo-Classical building, the boutique hotel has 40 rooms and a luxe-bohemian décor that suggests a cross between Mexico and Palm Springs.
Hotels near Classical sites just a few hours' drive from Athens have also cut their prices, including Delphi and the well-preserved ancient theater at Epidavros, where some of the first Greek tragedies were performed.
The Boston public radio station WGBH used to play several minutes of bird song every morning before beginning its daily classical music program, and my hotel wake-up, it seemed to me, was the big-city equivalent, the clanking, polytonal urban version of the dawn chorus.
But the gentry are a fickle bunch, and within a few decades they moved uptown, leaving their Classical empire to boarding houses, hotels and private schools.
IMG Artists, a major representative of classical musicians, on Wednesday named a hotel and resort company executive, Jerry Inzerillo, as its new president and chief executive.
