| 词条 | Hotel Metropole, Brussels |
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| hotel_name = Hotel Metropole Brussels | logo = | logo_width = | logo_caption = | image = Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium 1920s.jpg | image_width = | caption = Hotel Metropole in the 1920s | pushpin_map = | location = | address = Place de Brouckère 31 Brussels 1000, Belgium | chain = | opening_date = 1895 | closing_date = | developer = | architect = | operator = | owner = | number_of_rooms = 262 | number_of_suites = 22 | number_of_restaurants = 1, Café Métropole | floor_area = {{convert|952|m2|sqft|abbr=on}}[1] | floors = | height = | parking = | website = metropolehotel.com | footnotes = }} The Hotel Metropole Brussels, built in 1895, is the only nineteenth-century hotel in Brussels still in operation today.[2] The hotel has 262 rooms and 22 spacious suites.[3] In 1890, two brothers with a brewing company opened Café Metropole as a place in the city to sell their beer. The café was a huge success and the Weilemans-Ceuppens family then purchased the building next-door, a former bank, which would become the Hotel Metropole, inaugurated in 1895. Today, the hotel’s reception desk is easily recognizable as the desk of the former bank, a significant historical and heritage glimpse of the past. The brothers commissioned French architect Alban Chambon to be the chief designer of the hotel. Today, Chambon’s design is still a prominent feature of the heritage hotel, which is considered an important historical landmark in the city.{{cn|date=December 2016}} Not only was Hotel Metropole one of the first luxury hotels, it was also the first to have electricity and central heating, and is now the only existing 19th century hotel in Brussels. In fact, many heritage tours of Brussels visit the Hotel Metropole to look upon its facades and design.{{cn|date=December 2016}} The hotel’s reception, lobby, and lounge are overtly ornate with Corinthian columns, rich furnishings, gilded details, and chandeliers. Similarly, the meetings and conference rooms of the hotel are decorated in a Renaissance style. The Hotel Metropole is famous for having hosted the first Solvay Conference in 1911.[4] Moreover, it is the birthplace of the Black Russian cocktail, which was created in 1949 by barman Gustave Tops for the United States ambassador to Luxembourg, Perle Mesta.[5] References1. ^{{Cite web | title = Fact Sheet (Hotel Metropole) | publisher = Summit Hotels & Resorts | url = http://www.summithotels.com/summit/popups/hotel_fact_sheet.aspx?HotelId=47216 | accessdate = June 8, 2010}} 2. ^{{Cite web | title = Home page| publisher = The Hotel Metropole | date = 2010 | url = http://www.metropolehotel.com/ | accessdate = June 8, 2010}} 3. ^{{Cite web | title = Hotel Metropole Facts | publisher = Hotel Metropole | url = http://www.metropolehotel.com/var/plain_site/storage/original/application/a6a9f0f39a0a68ae1dd32e680f7087db.pdf | accessdate = June 8, 2010 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110714081349/http://www.metropolehotel.com/var/plain_site/storage/original/application/a6a9f0f39a0a68ae1dd32e680f7087db.pdf | archivedate = July 14, 2011 | df = }} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.science.uva.nl/research/itf/Annual_Reports/ITFA_Annual_Report_1999.pdf |page=30 |title=Annual Report 1999 |publisher=Institute for Theoretical Physics (Faculty of Science, Universiteit van Amsterdam) |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621181520/http://www.science.uva.nl/research/itf/Annual_Reports/ITFA_Annual_Report_1999.pdf |archivedate=2007-06-21 |df= }} 5. ^{{Cite web | last = Sicard | first = Cheri | title = Featured Cocktails - Black Russian and White Russian | publisher = FabulousFoods.com | date = August 6, 2007 | url = http://www.fabulousfoods.com/index.php?option=com_resource&controller=article&article=21219&category_id=237&Itemid=177 | accessdate = June 8, 2010}} External links
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