Hotel Kings Court
Prague, Czech Republic
Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. Located in the heart of the spa town of Karlovy Vary, on Mírové náměstí.
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8 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.
Burgomaster Deiml builds the Saxony Hall, the hotel’s earliest predecessor.
Confectioner Johann Georg Pupp (Jan Jiří Pop) arrives in Karlsbad to work for the confectioner Mitterbach.
Pupp marries Mitterbach’s daughter; together they acquire full ownership of the Bohemia Hall.
The prosperous Pupp family buys the Saxony Hall.
Viennese architects Fellner & Helmer rebuild the family’s buildings into today’s neo-Baroque Grandhotel Pupp.
Nationalised after the war and its owners expelled, the hotel is renamed Grandhotel Moskva.
The original name is restored, and the hotel is subsequently privatised.
The hotel appears in Last Holiday and, as the Hotel Splendide, in the James Bond film Casino Royale.
Sources: Wikipedia (EN), “Grandhotel Pupp” (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Official website. Text rewritten and translated by Grand Hotels of the World.
Prague, Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic