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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 |
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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Revision as of 02:48, 23 February 2020
| 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 |
| Other information | |
| 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
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
- ^ 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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