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The Mercure Liverpool Atlantic Tower Hotel (previously known as ''Atlantic Tower Hotel (The Hotel Collection), Thistle Liverpool, Thistle Atlantic Tower'' or the ''Thistle Hotel'') is a large 4-star hotel located in
Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...
,
England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
. Opened in 1972, it is situated on Chapel Street next to Saint Nicholas' Church and near the
Royal Liver Building The Royal Liver Building is a Grade I listed building in Liverpool, England. It is located at the Pier Head and along with the neighbouring Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building is one of Liverpool's '' Three Graces'', which line the ...
on the city's famous
Pier Head The Pier Head (properly, George's Pier Head) is a riverside location in the city centre of Liverpool, England. It was part of the former Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was inscribed in 2004, but revoked in ...
. The building was designed to resemble the prow of a ship to reflect Liverpool's maritime history.


Gallery

File:HotelinLiverpool.jpg, The Thistle Atlantic Tower File:AtlanticStNicholas.jpg, The hotel at night, Saint Nicholas' Church can be seen to the right File:Atlantic Tower Hotel and St. Nicholas' Church - geograph.org.uk - 72620.jpg, The hotel with the
Unity Buildings The Unity Buildings in Liverpool, England consist of the 86 m (282 ft) tall Unity Residential and 64 m (210 ft) Unity Commercial. They are respectively 27 and 16 storeys tall and the city's eighth and thirteenth tallest bu ...
under-construction behind it


See also

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Architecture of Liverpool The architecture of Liverpool is rooted in the city's development into a major port of the British Empire.Hughes (1999), p10 It encompasses a variety of architectural styles of the past 300 years, while next to nothing remains of its medieval ...
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Thistle Hotels Thistle Hotels, run by glh., is a UK-based hotel company with a portfolio of 7 Central London hotels, one at London Heathrow and one in Dorset, operating in the three and four star sector. History It was set up by Scottish & Newcastle in 1965 ...


References

Hotels in Liverpool Buildings and structures in Merseyside Hotels established in 1972 Hotel buildings completed in 1972 {{Merseyside-struct-stub