Hotel Olympik is a large hotel in the Karlín area of the 8th district of

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. The hotel is near the housing facility Invalidovna and the stadium of Čechie Karlín. Hotel Olympik is located at 138 Sokolovská Street.

History

The Hotel Olympik was designed by a team or architects led by Josef Polak between 1967 and 1971. hotel was opened to the public in 1973. The building is high, it has 21 floors and overlooks the city quarter

Karlín Karlín (german: Karolinenthal) is a cadastral area of Prague, part of Prague 8 municipal district, formerly an independent town (which became part of Prague in 1922). It is bordered by the river Vltava and Holešovice to the north, Vítkov ...

. The hotel was finished in 1974, and at the time had 715 beds. A fire in the hotel in 1995 took 8 lives and resulted in damages of 35 million

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. On 5 October 2008 thieves broke into the hotel safe and stole about the equivalent to CZK 1.000.000,00 in different currencies ( about US$55,500.00 ) and a large number of shares from the Olympic Holding Company. In 2015 the hotel was given a new brightly coloured facade.

1980 Summer Olympics

According to some experts, Hotel Olympik was built in preparation of Prague's bid to host the

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. The housing area Invalidovna would have been the

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. After Moscow placed a bid, Prague withdrew its application.Martin Bublák
Československý olympismus v období komunismu 1948–1989
diplomová práce, Brno, Masarykova univerzita, pedagogická fakulta, katedra historie, 2008 The hotel is not in a tourist area; it hosts many conferences and business gatherings.

Photogallery

File:Hotel Olympik, v noci.jpg, Hotel Olympik in the night File:Hotel-Olympik-Praha.JPG, Hotel Olympik in the sunlight File:Karlín Rustonka a Hotel Olympik 2013 Schwarzenberg 007.jpg, Hotel Olympik from the tram station Invalidovna File:Sokolovská, stanice metra Invalidovna.jpg, Hotel Olympik from the street Sokolovská File:Sídliště Invalidovna, park, od Molákovy ulice k hotelu Olympik.jpg, Hotel Olympik and the housing development Invalidovna

References

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article Hotel Olympik.

External links

* {{Official website, www.olympik.cz/en/olympik/ 1974 establishments in Czechoslovakia Hotels in Prague Hotels established in 1974 Hotel buildings completed in 1974 20th-century architecture in the Czech Republic