Sheraton Warsaw

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The western shoulder of the hotel facing Plac Trzech Krzyży . To the left of the glazed hotel restaurant, a connecting structure was built to match the architecture of the subsequent deaf-mute institute
The east shoulder of the hotel at the intersection of Bolesława Prusa and Marii Konopnickiej . Conference rooms and the entrance to the underground car park are located here
Entrance area / driveway of the hotel on the Prusa

The Sheraton Warsaw (proper name: Sheraton Warsaw Hotel ) is a 5-star hotel in the inner city district of Warsaw. It is operated by Sheraton Hotels & Resorts and, when it opened in 1996, is one of the first modern luxury hotels in the Polish capital since the reunification era . The hotel has been the seat of embassies on several occasions.

location

The address of the hotel is Ulica Bolesława Prusa 2 , its western shoulder of the building is at the southeast end of Plac Trzech Krzyży and thus on the historic royal wing . In an easterly direction - interrupted by the small Ulica Marii Konopnickiej - first the theater “Buffo” and then the Śmigły-Rydz-Park (Polish: Park Marszałka Edwarda Śmigłego-Rydza ) border the Vistula embankment . The Museum of the Earth is also located here . In the north, the hotel was built directly onto the stately deaf-and-dumb institute (Polish: Instytut Głuchoniemych im. Jakuba Falkowskiego ) by means of an architecturally adapted transitional building .

history

The Warsaw Sheraton was built between 1994 and 1996 on an abandoned site. Before the Second World War , the "Napoleon" cinema was located here, and it was renamed the "Apollo" cinema during the German occupation . The investor was the Sheraton Group, the consultant was NDI SA. The developer was Warimpex.

In addition to the Warsaw House (which was the first Sheraton property to be built in Poland), the Sheraton Group also operates hotels in Sopot , Poznan and Krakow .

There were several temporary embassies in the Warsaw Sheraton , for example those of Qatar , Kuwait , Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates .

architecture

The hotel consists of a front building that is around 130 meters long and 20 meters wide and extends in a west-east direction along the Prusa . To the rear (north) three wings of different depths (40, 35 and 30 meters) are attached, each ending with a semicircular head piece.

The height of the building is adapted to the surroundings, it has 7 above-ground and 3 underground floors. The latter houses an underground car park and the hotel's fitness club. The total property comprises 39,000 square meters of usable space, on which 352 rooms and suites , 16 conference rooms and a ballroom as well as various dining facilities (the bar “Someplace Else”, the Asian restaurant “The Oriental”, the Polish-Mediterranean restaurant “Lalka”, the Viennese Cafe "Cafe Imperial") are distributed.

Important guests

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Information history on the website of NDI (in English, accessed on October 16, 2011)
  2. ↑ according to a listing on the company's website, accessed October 16, 2011
  3. ↑ according to Article Milioner w Warszawie, czyli gdzie znaleźć luksus in Polska The Times of November 20, 2009 (in Polish)

See also

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 40.7 "  N , 21 ° 1 ′ 29.7"  E