Grandhotel Pupp

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hotel_name = Grandhotel Pupp

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caption = Grandhotel Pupp during the film festival
location = Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
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opening_date = 1701
stars = 5
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developer = Jan Jiří Pop
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number_of_rooms = 228
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website = [http://www.pupp.cz/ www.pupp.cz]
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The Grandhotel Pupp (IPA2|pʊp) is a 228-room luxury hotel located in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic. The hotel hosts the annual Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

The hotel began as the "Saxony Hall", built in 1701 by Burgomaster Deiml. A later mayor, Becher, built a "Lusthaus" on a plot of land he owned at right-angles to the "Saxony Hall". This became known as the "Bohemia Hall". Jan Jiří Pop ( _de. Johann Georg Pupp), a confectioner, came to Carlsbad in 1760 and worked for a local confectioner called Mitterbach. The widow of former mayor Becher sold a one-third share in the "Bohemia Hall" to Mitterbach's daughter, who married Pop in 1775. The following year, she bought another third and her husband the remaining third, giving the Pop/Pupp family complete ownership of the hall. At that time, Jan Jiří Pop started to use the German variant of his name.

The family prospered in the following decades and was able to buy the "Saxony Hall" in 1890. Between 1896 and 1907, the Viennese architects Fellner and Helmer rebuilt the various family-owned buildings into the neo-Baroque "Grandhotel Pupp" that stands today. Up until the Second World War the family continued to acquire neighbouring properties and incorporate them into the hotel complex.

After the war, the Communist government of Czechoslovakia nationalised the hotel and it was renamed "Grandhotel Moskva" in 1950. The hotel's original name was restored in 1989 and it has since been privatised.

The Grandhotel Pupp was a major location for the 2006 movie "Last Holiday" starring Queen Latifah. It also appears in the 2006 James Bond film "Casino Royale" as "Hotel Splendide" in Montenegro.

External links

* [http://www.pupp.cz/ Grandhotel Pupp]