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Athne Palace Hilton Bucharest

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Athne Palace Hilton Bucharest

The Athne Palace Hilton Bucharestis a historic luxury hotel in Bucharest, Romaniaopened in11!" #t $as ar%ua&ly 'urope(s most notorious den of spies in the years leadin% up to World War ##,and only sli%htly less so durin% the )old War"*1+

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Location

ocated in the heart of Bucharest on tr" 'piscopiei at the corner of )alea 2ictorieion the formersite of the Han 3herasi*-+4Hanis Romanianfor 5inn56, the hotel faces onto the small park in frontof the Romanian Athenaeumon Re7olution 8uare 4ori%inally Athenaeum 8uare, then Repu&lic8uare6" #t did not ori%inally face onto a s8uare9 at the time the hotel $as &uilt, the space that is no$a small park $as occupied &y the plendid Hotel, destroyed &y &om&in% on Au%ust -!, 1!!, andthere $ere a considera&le num&er of other &uildin%s on $hat is no$ the s8uare"*.+

History

The Athne Palace, desi%ned &y the FrencharchitectThophile Bradeau,&uilt 11-:11!, andmoderni;ed 1.0:1.< &y =uiliu >arcu, $as the first &uildin% in Bucharest to use reinforced

concreteconstruction?*!+dama%ed &y &om&in% in 1!!, durin% World War ##, it $as completelyremodeled in 1!0 and extended around 1@0, and a%ain dama%ed in the Romanian Re7olution of14some of $hose $orst 7iolence occurred in the s8uare immediately in front of the hotel6" #t

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