- Hotel Bristol in Warsaw
Hotel Bristol was built in 1899/1900 and is in
Krakowskie Przedmieście Street inPoland 's capital,Warsaw . __NOTOC__History
Le Royal Meridien Bristol is, quite possibly, the best example of the splendour of Old Warsaw. Built in 1900 by a company whose partners included
Ignacy Jan Paderewski , Polish pianist and prime minister. The Bristol had its heyday during the roaring 1920s. After the Second World War the hotel was renovated mainly in thesocialist realism style, opened in 1947, nationalised in 1948 and later became a hotel exclusively for visitors from abroad.It was thoroughly refurbished in its original style in the 1990s and re-opened by Baroness Thatcher in April 1993, as Le Royal Meridien Bristol.ee also
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Hotel Bristol References
* [http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/12422 The Warsaw Voice, 20 September 2006]
* [http://www.brigstowe.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/hotel.htm Hotel history]External links
* [http://www.starwoodhotels.com/lemeridien/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1863&EM=LM_LEMERIDIEN-BRISTOL.COM_1863 Official website]
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