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Raffles House. Raffles House is a single-storey building built on the Fort Canning Hill, Singapore. The original building was a wood and atap structure built in 1822 that was used as a place of residence by Sir Stamford Raffles. This building was later rebuilt as a neoclassical-styled Government House as the residence of subsequent colonial ...
4 March 1987; 37 years ago (1987-03-04) Reference no. 20. Raffles Singapore is a historic luxury hotel at 1 Beach Road, in Singapore. It was established by Armenian hoteliers, the Sarkies Brothers, in 1887. The hotel was named after British statesman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore. [1]
raffles.com. Raffles Hotels & Resorts is a Singaporean chain of luxury hotels which traces its roots to 1887 with the opening of the original Raffles Hotel in Singapore. [2] The company started to develop internationally in the late 1990s. Since 2015, Raffles is part of Accor. [3][4]
Website. Raffles City. Raffles City is a large complex located in the Civic District within the Downtown Core of the city-state of Singapore. Occupying an entire city block bounded by Stamford Road, Beach Road, Bras Basah Road and North Bridge Road, it houses two hotels and an office tower over a podium which contains a shopping complex and a ...
Raffles Place. Raffles Place is the centre of the Financial District of Singapore and is located south of the mouth of the Singapore River. [1] It was first planned and developed in the 1820s as Commercial Square to serve as the hub of the commercial zone of Singapore in Raffles Town Plan. It was renamed Raffles Place in 1858 and is now the ...
Warsaw – historic city center with the Royal Route and Wilanów. Reference no. M.P. 1994 nr 50 poz. 423 [1] Raffles Europejski Warsaw, commonly known as Hotel Europejski ( The European Hotel ), is a historic five-star luxury hotel located in the city centre of Warsaw, Poland. At the time of its opening in 1857 it was one of the most modern ...
FRHI Hotels & Resorts. FRHI Hotels & Resorts (previously known as Fairmont Raffles Hotels International) [2] is a global hotel management company that is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. FRHI is the parent company that manages three brands of hotels: Fairmont, Raffles and Swissôtel. These hotel chains collectively include more than 100 ...
Raffles Lighthouse is located on Pulau Satumu (indicated by the arrow), south of the main island of Singapore. In 1968, the installation of a 4th Order electrically operated revolving optic replaced the original 2nd Order optic with a pressurised vapour kerosene "Hood" mantle burner. [3] The light source was changed to a 100-volt/1,000-watt ...