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The Café Comercial is a café located at the Glorieta de Bilbao in central Madrid, Spain. It is one of the city's oldest cafés, founded 21 March 1887 in the era of the Bourbon Restoration in Spain. [1] It was a center for literary tertulias in the period following the Spanish Civil War. A remnant of Madrid's golden age, it was also one of the ...
The Mandarin Oriental Ritz, Madrid is a historic five star Belle Époque hotel in Madrid, Spain at No. 5 in Retiro district, next to the Prado Museum. Opened in 1910, it is owned and managed by the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. The hotel's façade is a listed national monument. [1]
Železná Ruda was founded at the beginning of the 16th century as a mining town. After around 150 years, the iron ore stocks were extracted and iron production ended. Because quartz and limestone deposits were also located here, the town's industry reoriented to the glass industry.
Exterior wood façade of Café Gijón Paseo de Recoletos, The café is on the left A scene from the café on display in the nearby wax museum. Café Gijón (Also known as Gran Café de Gijón) is a culturally significant coffeehouse [1] situated at No. 21, [2] [3] in the boulevard of central Madrid, Spain, which is known as Paseo de Recoletos. [4]
The 200-room hotel is one of the largest and most expensive hotel in Madrid's history, with suites costing up to €12,000 a night. [ 2 ] Located in Madrid's city center and steps away from the Puerta del Sol , the building was originally constructed from 1887 to 1891 as the headquarters of La Equitativa insurance company, but is better known ...
Lhardy is a restaurant located at Madrid in Spain, which was opened in 1839 by Emilio Huguenin Lhardy. [1] It was said to have introduced French haute cuisine to Madrid. [2] It has a deli and takeaway service on the ground floor and a formal restaurant on the second floor. [3]
The hotel was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1999. [7] Starwood moved the hotel to its Westin Hotels division on March 1, 2000, renaming the property The Westin Palace Madrid. [8] In 2005, Starwood sold the hotel to Host Marriott as part of a package of 38 international hotel properties, for $4.1 billion. [9]
Charles Carmine Forte, Baron Forte Kt / ˈ f ɔːr t eɪ / (26 November 1908 – 28 February 2007) was an Italian-born Scottish hotelier who founded the leisure and hotels conglomerate that ultimately became the Forte Group. [1] [2]