Hôtel des Alpes-Grand Hôtel

In March 1840, the town of Territet bought a parcel of land on which to build a hostel entitled Chasseur des Alpes.

In 1875 a dining hall was added to the building and two years later Ami Chessex chose the architect Louis Maillard (later joined by Eugène Jost) to build the Grand Hôtel beside the Hôtel des Alpes.

[5] Among the Hôtel's many notable guests were Elisabeth of Bavaria, who visited four times, and Francis Joseph I of Austria in 1893.

[7] In 1971, Deep Purple temporarily converted one of its corridors to a live room in order to record Machine Head after a flare gun incident set their intended venue, Montreux Casino, on fire.

[8] In 1975 it closed and its main hall and dining hall were turned into a theatre, whilst the Grand Hôtel's bedrooms became the National Swiss Audiovisual Museum,[4] though this closed in 2008 and left the premises in 2012 to allow for their renovation.