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Sopot, Poland. Located on the beachfront of Gdańsk Bay in Sopot, on the Baltic coast.
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10 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.
The Kasino-Hotel opens in Zoppot, then in the Free City of Danzig; designed by Otto Kloeppel and Richard Kohnke, it cost 20 million Danzig gulden.
Requisitioned by the German army, the hotel serves as Adolf Hitler’s headquarters from 19 to 26 September during the invasion of Poland.
With Sopot now in Poland, it is renamed Grand Hotel Sopot and run by the Gdynia America Line, then from 1951 by Polish Ocean Lines.
Orbis, the state travel monopoly, takes over ownership and management.
The hotel hosts the 16th Pugwash Conference on disarmament and world security.
In Operation “Seagull”, the communist secret police arrest Solidarity dissidents here, including Jacek Kuroń and Tadeusz Mazowiecki.
A casino opens, the third in Poland after Warsaw and Kraków.
After renovation under Accor management, the hotel reopens as a Sofitel.
A spa opens.
Orbis sells the hotel to Sinfam Investments; Accor continues to manage it.
Sources: Wikipedia (EN), “Grand Hotel, Sopot” (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Official website. Text rewritten and translated by Grand Hotels of the World.
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