The Al Waddan Hotel opened in 1936 as the Italian Uaddan Hotel & Casino.

History

It is a historic hotel in

Tripoli, Libya Tripoli (; ar, طرابلس الغرب, translit= Ṭarābulus al-Gharb , translation=Western Tripoli) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.1 million people in 2019. It is located in the northwe ...

, located overlooking the bay, just east of

Grand Hotel Tripoli The Grand Hotel Tripoli, also known as ''Funduq-Al-Kabir Hotel'' in Arabic, is a hotel on El-Fatah Street in Tripoli, Libya. Data The modern hotel was built in 1982 and designed by the British firm of Wakeman Trower & Partners Ltd. It replace ...

. Historically it was the grandest hotel in Tripoli and was referenced by an American journalist as being "the Waldorf Astoria of Tripoli" and wasnamed "a jewel of modern African architecture". It was built in 1935 at the same time as the Hotel Al Mehari. It was designed by Italian architect

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, with the collaboration of Stefano Gatti-Casazza. It contained a casino and a 500-seat theatre. It was completely restored at a cost of $16 million from 2007 to 2009 as an international luxury hotel and was managed for a number of years by

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the "Grand Hotel" in Italian Tripoli
Hotels in Tripoli Hotel buildings completed in 1935 Hotels established in 1935 1935 establishments in Libya Casino hotels {{Libya-struct-stub

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