Grand Hotel Cirta

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Grand Hotel Cirta
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Location within Algeria
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Location Constantine, Algeria
Coordinates 36°21′39″N6°36′48″E / 36.36083°N 6.61333°E / 36.36083; 6.61333
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Number of rooms76

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.

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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. [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]

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References

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