Hotel Europe (Sarajevo)
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| Former names | Hotel Evropa (1882-1992) |
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| Location | Stari Grad, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Address | 8 Vladislava Skarića Street Sarajevo 71000, B-H Federation, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Opening | 12 December 1882 |
| Owner | Rasim Bajrović |
| Management | Europe doo |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Sead Gološ (current) Karel Pařík (original building) |
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Hotel Europe (originally known as Hotel Evropa) is a historic hotel in central Sarajevo.
Built and opened in the early days of what turned out to be a 40-year Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the hotel holds a special place in the city's lore as its first modern hospitality venue. Over its almost century and a half long existence, the hotel saw many changes often brought upon by sudden geopolitical events, reflecting the city's turbulent political and social history.
For 60 years, from its construction and grand opening until World War II, Hotel Evropa had been owned and run by the Jeftanović family, father and son Gliša and Dušan, respectively, Serb merchants and industrialists from Sarajevo. During the communist period in Yugoslavia from 1945 until 1990, the hotel was nationalized and run by various state-owned entities such as HTP Evropa. Since the Bosnian War, the property has been re-privatized in 2006 by the Sandžak-born Bosniak businessman Rasim Bajrović who re-opened the venue in 2008, this time under a modified name Hotel Europe.
Hotel Europe is located at 8 Vladislava Skarića Street in the central part of Sarajevo's Stari Grad municipality.
It overlooks the Gazi-Husrev Beg's Bezistan and the ruins of the former Tašlihan while it's short walking distance away from the Latin Bridge, Despić House, Baščaršija, Sahatkula, Ferhadija pedestrian promenade, and other sites of interest.
Funded by wealthy merchant and industrialist Gligorije "Gliša" Jeftanović (1841-1927), the site near the former Tašlihan, a mid-15th century caravanserai that burned down in the great fire of August 1879, was selected as the location for a new hotel. The building design was commissioned to architect Karel Pařík. Hotel Evropa got officially opened on Tuesday, 12 December 1882 and right away Jeftanović leased the premises out to Edvard Lasslauer who began running the hotel's day-to-day operations.
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