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-- Between 1901 and 1906, Cesare Mazzoni decided to build the new thermal structure, the Grand Hotel and the Casino. They were an innovation for the image of the company because they contributed to an increase of the number of visitors and to help spread the image of the product, which was, in that moment, distributed at an international level. The Grand Hotel was ordered to be built by Mazzoni, because of the number of rich people to the thermal site. During that period, few people could afford a car and, for this reason, in 1904 Mazzoni started construction of the hotel, which was used until 1979, and of the Casino in 1907. In 1917, the Casino was definitively closed by ministerial decree by Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, who forbade gambling in Italy. The hotel contained hundred bedrooms, each of which had a private restroom, and was furnished according to the liberty style, typical of the Belle Époque period. During the years before the permanent closure, the hotel had been used by Inter, one of the two Italian football teams based in Milan, as a training accommodation. Later, the hall of the hotel was used as an antique market once a week, but after the fall of pieces of plaster from the roof, it was decided to close it. In fact, renovating the Grand Hotel's structure would be very expensive because it had been made of load-bearing walls. For this reason, the hotel has been closed ever since. In 2016 the Italian government allocated 18,6 million euros for its renovation which will last two years. -