Hotel Continental (Tangier)

Hotel Continental
فندق كونتيننتال
Hotel Continental in Tangier, Morocco
Map
General information
TypeHotel
Address36 Rue Dar Baroud, Tanger 90000, Morocco
Town or cityTangier
CountryMorocco
Opened1870
Other information
Number of rooms56
Website
https://hcontinental-tanger.com/

35°47′15″N 5°48′34″W / 35.78750°N 5.80944°W / 35.78750; -5.80944 (Hotel Continental)


The Hotel Continental, built in 1870, is one of the oldest hotels in Tangier, Morocco.[1] The yellowing pages of the 19th-century guestbook refer to notable residents, Edgar Degas, Winston Churchill, and the Beat poets among them, and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky was partly filmed here. It is located in the Medina area of the city and some of the rooms overlook the harbor.[2]

References

  1. ^ Morocco. Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Travel Guides. 2006. p. 133.
  2. ^ Many Tangier landmarks and old images of these are explained in detail, in relation to the hotel's location, in Martin Malcolm Elbl, Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662): Colonial Urban Fabric as Cross-Cultural Skeleton (Baywolf Press: Toronto and Peterborough, 2013) ISBN 978-0-921437-50-5. Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662): Colonial Urban Fabric as Cross-Cultural Skeleton and Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662): Colonial Urban Fabric as Cross-Cultural Skeleton