Grand Hotel Cirta

Grand Hotel Cirta
General information
Location	Constantine, Algeria
Coordinates	36°21′39″N 6°36′48″E / 36.36083°N 6.61333°E
Other information
Number of rooms	76

Grand Hotel Cirta or Hotel Cirta is a hotel in Constantine, Algeria, located in a white colonial building at 1 Ave Achour Rachmani, on the edge of Place des Martyrs.^[1][2][3] The hotel has 76 rooms, including 30 double rooms, 33 single rooms, 1 triple room and 4 suites and 1 apartment room.^[4] Lonely Planet describes it as a "grand old hotel" and "another remnant of the colonial era".^[3] In 1972 one publication said of the hotel, "The grandeur of its mosque-like domed lobby, with its light blue tiles and hanging brass lanterns, may be fading somewhat in these post-colonial days of the Peoples' Democratic Republic of Algeria."^[5] The hotel contains a cinema.^[6]

References

1. Edgar Fletcher-Allen; Thomas Cook Ltd (1933). Cook's traveller's handbook to North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. Simpkin, Marshall, ltd. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
2. Ham, Anthony; Luckham, Nana; Sattin, Anthony (15 August 2007). Algeria. Lonely Planet. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-74179-099-3. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
3. Simonis, Damien (April 1995). North Africa: a Lonely Planet travel survival kit. Lonely Planet Publications. ISBN 978-0-86442-258-3. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
4. The Report: Algeria 2008. Oxford Business Group. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-902339-09-2. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
5. Canadian Saturday night: a magazine of business & national affairs. Parkan Publications. 1972. p. 4. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
6. Ghanem, Ali (1986). The seven-headed serpent. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 978-0-15-181200-4. Retrieved 14 January 2012.

External links

• Official website
• Photograph