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.
| Grand Hotel Cirta | |
|---|---|
  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 |
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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