Hotel Bristol (Oslo)

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Hotel Bristol
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Location within Central Oslo
General information
Location Karl Johans gate, Oslo, Norway
Coordinates 59°54′54″N10°44′23″E / 59.91500°N 10.73972°E / 59.91500; 10.73972
Opening1920
Owner Olav Thon
Other information
Number of rooms251
Number of suites10
Number of restaurants3

Hotel Bristol is a hotel in Oslo, Norway. Opened in 1920, it is owned today by Olav Thon. The hotel has 251 rooms, 10 suites, and three restaurants. [1]

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On the evening of July 15, 1936, the city of Oslo hosted, at the hotel, a dinner for participants in the 1936 International Congress of Mathematicians. [2]

In 1939, the Oslo Report was written by Hans Ferdinand Mayer during his stay at the hotel. [3] During World War II, the hotel was requisitioned as a hospital to treat casualties from the December 1943 explosion of a German munitions ship in Oslo's harbor. [4]

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Hotel Bristol, 1930
Hotel Bristol, Moorish Hall, 1959 Mauriske hall OB.O59-1939.jpg
Hotel Bristol, Moorish Hall, 1959
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Hotel restaurant

See also

References

  1. ↑ Frommer’s Review. "Hotel Oslo". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 4, 2011. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  2. ↑ Comptes rendus du Congrès international des mathématiciens, Oslo 1936 (PDF). Vol. Tome I. p. 15.
  3. ↑ Hotel Club
  4. ↑ "Ship Explodes, Rocks Oslo". Associated Press. December 20, 1943. Retrieved May 22, 2010.


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