Hotel Grande Bretagne in Athens
Saturday, 16 February 2013 - 01:17 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General , Hotels
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The Hotel Grande Bretagne is a luxury city hotel in Greece, one of the most luxurious in southeastern Europe. It is located in central
Athens immediately adjacent to
Syntagma Square , on the corner of Vasileos Georgiou A’ and Panepistimiou Streets, and is now part of the Marriott company.
The structure was built in 1842 as a house for Antonis Dimitriou, a wealthy Greek from the island of Limnos, only 12 years after Greece’s independence from Ottoman Rule . It was then bought in 1874 by Efstathios Lampas, who restored the mansion with an 800,000 drachma loan and named it the Grande Bretagne; by 1888 the hotel had electricity installed. Its location is adjacent to the parliament building and one kilometre from the Acropolis.
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During the early stages of the
Greek Civil War , the hotel housed the British military administration, under General Ronald Scobie, in Athens.
In 2003, the Hotel Grande Bretagne underwent a complete renovation to restore it to its former glory, and approximately 82 million Euros were invested to completely modernize the building. There are 321 comprehensively renovated rooms, including a 400 square metres (4,305 sqf.) Royal Suite on the fifth floor; the price for a night in the Royal Suite can reach € 12,000.
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