Hotel Astoria (Belgrade)
| Queen's Astoria Design Hotel | |
|---|---|
| Former names | Hotel Astoria (1937-2009) |
| General information | |
| Location | Savski Venac, Belgrade, Serbia |
| Address | 1 Milovana Milovanovića Street Belgrade 11000 |
| Opening | 1937 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 5 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Ivan Savković |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 85 |
| Website | |
| Queen's Astoria Design Hotel | |
Queen's Astoria Design Hotel (originally known as Hotel Astoria) is a four star hotel in Belgrade, Serbia.
Opened in 1937 in the capital of Kingdom of Yugoslavia, several years before the country was invaded and dismembered by Nazi Germany, Hotel Astoria was the property of Đura S. Ninković, well-known Belgrade hotelier. Following Ninković's death in 1940, the hotel was inherited by his surviving family, continuing under management of his wife Jelena and their two children — son Milorad Ninković and daughter Ljubina "Nina" Savković.
At the end of World War II, the hotel got nationalized in the newly established, communist-run FPR Yugoslavia. The state (including its successor states) ran the hotel through a state-owned entity DHUTP Astoria for the following sixty years.
On 6 March 2009, the hotel was controversially re-privatized via a tender auction organized by the Serbian government's privatization agency, which accepted the joint €2.4 million bid by Progres AB and Montenegro Premier companies. The new owners closed the hotel for renovation in mid 2009, before re-opening in late November 2010 under a modified name Queen's Astoria Design Hotel.
Located at 1 Milovana Milovanovića Street, in the Belgrade municipality of Savski Venac, Queen's Astoria Design Hotel is in the near-vicinity of the city's Main Railway Station as well as its main bus terminal.
Hotel Astoria's construction was financed by Đura S. Ninković who already owned hotel properties around the city such as the Branislav Kojić-designed Hotel Pošta that opened in 1930 on the opposite side of Savski Trg. For Hotel Astoria, which was envisioned as a bigger hotel, Ninković commissioned the building design to his own son-in-law, architect Ivan Savković who later in 1950 went on to co-design the post-World War II building at 14 King Milan Street to house the PR Serbia Assembly. The newly built hotel became one of the first modernist buildings in Belgrade with Streamline Moderne elements, applying a minimalist façade design and relying on simple geometric lines rather than ornate decorations. The building has since been given the status as a significant architectural milestone in Serbian architecture.
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