Cecil Hotel (Alexandria)
Cecil Hotel is a four‑star hotel in Alexandria, Egypt. It opened in 1929 at Saad Zaghloul Square, in front of the Corniche, built by the Metzger family as a romantic hotel. Famous guests included writer Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill, and Al Capone.
After the 1952 revolution, the Egyptian government seized the hotel and, five years later, the Metzger family was expelled. In 2007, after a long court case, ownership returned to the Metzger family, who then sold it to the Egyptian government. The hotel later operated as Sofitel Cecil Alexandria and, in October 2014, joined the Steigenberger Hotels chain.
On December 20, 2023, Icon Company, a part of the Talaat Moustafa Group, acquired 51% of Legacy Hotels Company, which owns the Cecil Hotel. The hotel has 82 rooms and has been mentioned in novels such as The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell and Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz.
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