Grand Hotel Cirta

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
LocationConstantine, Algeria
Coordinates36°21′39″N 6°36′48″E
Other information
Number of rooms76

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
  1. 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.
  2. Ham, Anthony; Luckham, Nana; Sattin, Anthony (15 August 2007). Algeria. Lonely Planet. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-74179-099-3. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  3. 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.
  4. The Report: Algeria 2008. Oxford Business Group. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-902339-09-2. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  5. William C. Garner, "Roads Adequate in North Africa", La Grande Observer (June 22, 1935), p. 4.
  6. Canadian Saturday night: a magazine of business & national affairs. Parkan Publications. 1972. p. 4. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  7. Ghanem, Ali (1986). The seven-headed serpent. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 978-0-15-181200-4. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
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