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'''Grand Hotel Cirta''' or '''Hotel Cirta''' is a hotel in [[Constantine, Algeria|Constantine]], [[Algeria]], located in a white colonial building at 1 |
'''Grand Hotel Cirta''' or '''Hotel Cirta''' is a hotel in [[Constantine, Algeria|Constantine]], [[Algeria]], located in a white colonial building at 1 Avenue Rahmani Achour, on the edge of Place des Martyrs.<ref name="Fletcher-AllenLtd1933">{{cite book|author1=Edgar Fletcher-Allen|author2=Thomas Cook Ltd|title=Cook's traveller's handbook to North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H2QvAAAAIAAJ|accessdate=14 January 2012|year=1933|publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, ltd.}}</ref><ref name="HamLuckham2007">{{cite book|last1=Ham|first1=Anthony|last2=Luckham|first2=Nana|last3=Sattin|first3=Anthony|title=Algeria|url=https://archive.org/details/algeria00anth|url-access=registration|accessdate=14 January 2012|date=15 August 2007|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-74179-099-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/algeria00anth/page/120 120]}}</ref><ref name="Simonis1995"/> The hotel is the property of the Societe de l'Hotel Cirta, owned by Mohand Tiar, an Algerian businessman and philanthropist. |
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==Architecture== |
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The hotel has 76 rooms, including 30 double rooms, 33 single rooms, 1 triple room and 4 suites and 1 apartment room.<ref name="Group">{{cite book|title=The Report: Algeria 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zPz9FHXJVLUC&pg=PA251|accessdate=20 March 2011|publisher=Oxford Business Group|isbn=978-1-902339-09-2|page=252}}</ref> [[Lonely Planet]] describes it as a "grand old hotel" and "another remnant of the colonial era".<ref name="Simonis1995">{{cite book|last=Simonis|first=Damien|title=North Africa: a Lonely Planet travel survival kit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ECEZAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=14 January 2012|date=April 1995|publisher=Lonely Planet Publications|isbn=978-0-86442-258-3}}</ref> In 1935 one publication described the hotel as being "as fine a hotel as anyone would care to stop at, excepting that we do not have a private bath".<ref>William C. Garner, "Roads Adequate in North Africa", ''La Grande Observer'' (June 22, 1935), p. 4.</ref> Another said in 1972, "The grandeur of its mosque-like domed lobby, with its light blue tiles and hanging brass lanterns, may be fading somewhat in these post-colonial days of the Peoples' Democratic Republic of Algeria."<ref name="Canadian Saturday night: a magazine of business & national affairs">{{cite book|title=Canadian Saturday night: a magazine of business & national affairs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kOQmAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=14 January 2012|year=1972|publisher=Parkan Publications|page=4}}</ref> The hotel contains a cinema.<ref name="Ghanem1986">{{cite book|last=Ghanem|first=Ali|title=The seven-headed serpent|url=https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_k8u8|url-access=registration|accessdate=14 January 2012|year=1986|publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich|isbn=978-0-15-181200-4}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 22:24, 23 October 2024
| Grand Hotel Cirta | |
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  Location within Algeria | |
| General information | |
| Location | Constantine, Algeria |
| Coordinates | 36°21′39″N 6°36′48″E / 36.36083°N 6.61333°E |
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| Number of rooms | 76 |
Grand Hotel Cirta or Hotel Cirta is a hotel in Constantine, Algeria, located in a white colonial building at 1 Avenue Rahmani Achour, on the edge of Place des Martyrs.[1][2][3] The hotel is the property of the Societe de l'Hotel Cirta, owned by Mohand Tiar, an Algerian businessman and philanthropist.
Architecture
[edit]The hotel has 76 rooms, including 30 double rooms, 33 single rooms, 1 triple room and 4 suites and 1 apartment room.[4] Lonely Planet describes it as a "grand old hotel" and "another remnant of the colonial era".[3] In 1935 one publication described the hotel as being "as fine a hotel as anyone would care to stop at, excepting that we do not have a private bath".[5] Another said in 1972, "The grandeur of its mosque-like domed lobby, with its light blue tiles and hanging brass lanterns, may be fading somewhat in these post-colonial days of the Peoples' Democratic Republic of Algeria."[6] The hotel contains a cinema.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Edgar Fletcher-Allen; Thomas Cook Ltd (1933). Cook's traveller's handbook to North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. Simpkin, Marshall, ltd. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ Ham, Anthony; Luckham, Nana; Sattin, Anthony (15 August 2007). Algeria. Lonely Planet. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-74179-099-3. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ a b Simonis, Damien (April 1995). North Africa: a Lonely Planet travel survival kit. Lonely Planet Publications. ISBN 978-0-86442-258-3. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ The Report: Algeria 2008. Oxford Business Group. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-902339-09-2. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ William C. Garner, "Roads Adequate in North Africa", La Grande Observer (June 22, 1935), p. 4.
- ^ Canadian Saturday night: a magazine of business & national affairs. Parkan Publications. 1972. p. 4. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ Ghanem, Ali (1986). The seven-headed serpent. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 978-0-15-181200-4. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
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