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Hotel Metropol (other)
Hotel Metropol or Hotel Metropole may refer to: United Kingdom * Hotel Metropole, Leeds * Hilton Birmingham Metropole, the largest hotel in England outside London * Hilton Brighton Metropole, a 4-star hotel and conference centre located on the seafront in Brighton, East Sussex * Metropole Hotel, London United States * Hotel Metropole (New York City), the first hotel in New York City that had running water in every room * Hotel Metropole (Cincinnati, Ohio) * Hotel Metropole (Santa Cruz, California), built in 1908, added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1979, demolished after being severely damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake Other places * Hotel Metropol (Moscow) * Hotel Metropole, Brussels, built in 1895, the only 19th-century hotel in Brussels still in operation today * Hotel Metropole, Dublin, a former landmark closed in 1972 * Hotel Métropole Geneva, a hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, opened in 1854 * Hotel Metropole, Ipswich, a heritage-listed hotel i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Metropole, Leeds
The Met Hotel is a Grade II listed building situated on King Street in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Designed by Leeds-based architects Harry Sutton Chorley and J.W. Connon, the hotel opened in 1899 as the Hotel Metropole. The Principal Hayley Group renovated the hotel in 2005, at a cost of £6 million, and changed the name to the trendier sounding 'The Met'. It has four stars and it has 120 rooms. The Hotel Metropole is a listed building, principally because of its rare and remarkable Victorian terracotta Terracotta, terra cotta, or terra-cotta (; ; ), in its material sense as an earthenware substrate, is a clay-based ceramic glaze, unglazed or glazed ceramic where the pottery firing, fired body is porous. In applied art, craft, construction, a ... facade. The cupola on the roof was taken from the demolished 4th White Cloth Hall, built in 1868 on the same site. Television *The hotel served as the fictional 'Marble Arch Hotel' in the hit 1991 miniseries '' The Dar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneva
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated in the south west of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva, Republic and Canton of Geneva. The city of Geneva () had a population 201,818 in 2019 (Jan. estimate) within its small municipal territory of , but the Canton of Geneva (the city and its closest Swiss suburbs and exurbs) had a population of 499,480 (Jan. 2019 estimate) over , and together with the suburbs and exurbs located in the canton of Vaud and in the French Departments of France, departments of Ain and Haute-Savoie the cross-border Geneva metropolitan area as officially defined by Eurostat, which extends over ,As of 2020, the Eurostat-defined Functional Urban Area of Geneva was made up of 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi is a five-star historic luxury hotel, opened in 1901 as Grand Métropole Hotel in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. It is today one of the most important buildings of Vietnam in French colonial style. The hotel today has 364 rooms. History 1900s In 1899, Gustave-Émile Dumoutier files a request to convert the buildings on his land at the corner of boulevard Henri-Rivière into a hotel. The extra capital of 500,000 francs is provided by businessman André Ducamp. The Grand Métropole Hôtel is opened in August 1901 by André Ducamp and Gustave-Émile Dumoutier, operated by the Cie Française Immobilière. On 2 August in 1904 Gustave-Émile Dumoutier, partner of Andre Ducamp, dies. The hotel is managed by the professional manager, Frenchman Edouard Lion. It is regarded by visitors as ‚a luxurious, though expensive abode‘. 1910s By 1916, the Metropole becomes the first venue in Indo-China to show motion pictures. 1930s During 1930 and 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
