How a hotel conversion became an act of faith
When Valéry Grégo went to meet Sister Marie-Chantal, he assumed she knew nothing about him. The hotelier was visiting the nun to explain how he was turning her former home, the Couvent de la Visitation in Nice, into a five-star luxury hotel. However well-known Grégo is in a certain world, thanks to Le Pigalle in Paris or L’Alpaga in Megève, surely Marie-Chantal, who had entered the convent aged 18, would be bemused by this worldly proposition. He was wrong.
From the outset the challenge was, as Festen’s Hugo Sauzay puts it, “how to create a five-star hotel in 2024 in a 17th-century building, lived in by nuns for totally different purposes”. The building is listed; it cannot be altered much. “For 400 years, this place was a convent – but it was more than that,” says Grégo, who has a 93-year lease on the property. “It was a place for people to live together, to look after people, to host people.
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