Grand Hotel Tripoli
Grand Hotel Tripoli | |
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Coordinates | 32°53′35″N 13°11′4″E / 32.89306°N 13.18444°E |
Opening | 1982 |
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Number of rooms | 350 |
The Grand Hotel Tripoli, also known as Al-Kabir Hotel or Al Kabeer Hotel is a hotel on Elfatah Street in Tripoli, Libya. The hotel was built in 1982 and designed by the British firm of Wakeman Trower & Partners Ltd.[1] It replaced a smaller historic hotel, also called Grand Hotel Tripoli, which was demolished.
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The hotel stands in an extensive open park which overlooks the harbor, not far from the Algerian embassy and Jamal Abd Alnaser Mosque. It has 350 rooms.[2] It is noted for its many arches, inspired by the original building's facade, which form the basis of the structure. The hotel once had a propaganda poster on the outside of the hotel showed a crying child superimposed above a montage of the wreckage caused by the attack by the British.[3]
References
- ↑ http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=414
- ↑ Curry, Jeffrey E.; Putzi, Sibylla (August 2001). Global road warrior: 95-country resource for the international business communicator and traveler. World Trade Press. p. 480. ISBN 978-1-885073-86-0. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
- ↑ Marozzi, Justin (1 May 2002). South from Barbary: along the slave routes of the Libyan Sahara. Flamingo. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-00-653117-3. Retrieved 8 March 2011.