Metropol Palace

Belgrade, Serbia. Located at the corner of Bulevar kralja Aleksandra and Karnegijeva street, near St. Mark’s Church.

Metropol PalaceBelgrade, Serbia

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108 rooms and 128 suites, among them presidential and royal suites.
A fine-dining restaurant, a bar and The Twenty Two rooftop restaurant.
Spa with 25 m pool, sauna, jacuzzi and gym; ballrooms and conference halls.
Located at the corner of Bulevar kralja Aleksandra and Karnegijeva street, near St. Mark’s Church.

11 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

Summer 1949
Youth work brigades start building a congress centre for the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia on the site.
November 1950
Work stops; the congress centre project is abandoned.
1954
Architect Dragiša Brašovan reworks the plans into a high-rise hotel and construction resumes.
20 August 1957
Hotel Metropol welcomes its first guests, with its white façade, stained glass and mosaic.
1960s – 1970s
Tito holds his New Year’s Eve parties here; guests include Alfred Hitchcock, Sophia Loren, Bobby Fischer and Neil Armstrong.
1961
At the first Non-Aligned Movement summit, the hotel hosts a reception for 30 heads of state or government and more than 3,000 guests.
2001
The building is declared a cultural monument.
2002
A major fire destroys the top two floors; the rest of the hotel stays open until 2008.
2006
The hotel is bought for €27.4 million; a reconstruction worth over €40 million begins in 2008, led by architect Miodrag Trpković.
9 Sept. 2012
After reconstruction, the hotel, now the five-star Metropol Palace (its name since 2007), welcomes guests again.
15 Oct. 2012
The Metropol Palace joins The Luxury Collection.