The Grandhotel Pupp () is a 228-room luxury

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located in

Karlovy Vary Karlovy Vary (; german: Karlsbad, formerly also spelled ''Carlsbad'' in English) is a spa town, spa city in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 46,000 inhabitants. It lies on the confluence of the rivers Ohře and Teplá. ...

(Carlsbad),

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. The hotel hosts the annual

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. The hotel began as the ''

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

Hall'', built in 1701 by

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Deiml. A later mayor, Becher, built a ''Lusthaus'' on a plot of land he owned at right-angles to the ''Saxony Hall''. This became known as the ''

Bohemia Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb, Čěska; szl, Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohem ...

Hall''. Jan Jiří Pop (german: Johann Georg Pupp), a

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, came to Carlsbad in 1760 and worked for a local confectioner called Mitterbach. The widow of former mayor Becher sold a one-third share in the ''Bohemia Hall'' to Mitterbach's daughter, who married Pop in 1775. The following year, she bought another third and her husband the remaining third, giving the Pop/Pupp family complete ownership of the hall. At that time, Jan Jiří Pop started to use the German variant of his name. The family prospered in the following decades and was able to buy the ''Saxony Hall'' in 1890. Between 1896 and 1907, the

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and

Hermann Helmer Hermann Gottlieb Helmer (13 July 1849 – 2 April 1919) was a German architect who mainly worked in Austria. Biography After completing an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, and some further education he joined the architecture firm of Ferdinand ...

rebuilt the various family-owned buildings into the neo-

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''Grandhotel Pupp'' that stands today. Up until the

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the family continued to acquire neighbouring properties and incorporate them into the hotel complex. After the war, the

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government of

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the hotel and it was renamed ''Grandhotel Moskva'' in 1950. The hotel's owners, along with almost the totality of the Karlsbad's population, were expelled. The hotel's original name was restored in 1989 and it has since been privatized. Karlsbad 1977

The Grandhotel Pupp was a major location for the 2006 movie '' Last Holiday'' starring

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. It also appears in the 2006

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film '' Casino Royale'' as ''Hotel Splendide'' in Montenegro. It has been cited as inspiration for the Grand Hotel Budapest in the movie of the same name.

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