Semiramis InterContinental Hotel

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Semiramis InterContinental Hotel
General information
StatusCompleted
TypeHotel [1]
Location Cairo, Egypt
Coordinates 30°02′35″N31°13′57″E / 30.04301°N 31.23252°E / 30.04301; 31.23252
Opening1988
Height
Roof358 ft (109 m)
Technical details
Floor count32 [1]

Semiramis InterContinental Hotel is a skyscraper and hotel complex located in Garden City, Cairo, Egypt. The 32-story building completed in 1987, and houses an InterContinental hotel. The modernist building replaced the historic Semiramis hotel, and contains 726 rooms and suites, restaurants, bars, a cafe, outdoor Nile view terraces, a Spa, a gym, ballrooms, conference and meeting rooms, a shopping arcade and a casino.

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History

During the Second World War, the former Semiramis Hotel served as the headquarters of the 2nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade, whose task was to build up the permanent defences at the main port harbours. [2]

Salah Zulfikar, Shadia and a Russian actress at a cinematic event for A Taste of Fear in Semiramis InterContinental Hotel, Cairo in 1969 EgyptcinemaEvent1969.jpg
Salah Zulfikar, Shadia and a Russian actress at a cinematic event for A Taste of Fear in Semiramis InterContinental Hotel, Cairo in 1969

In late 1993, American and French tourists were shot dead at the hotel in a terrorist attack. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Semiramis InterContinental Hotel". SkyscraperPage .
  2. 2 AA Bde War Diary, Middle East, 1941, TNA file WO 169/1560.
  3. "Egypt in 1993". Britannica. Archived from the original on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2017.