Hilton Paris La Défense, 2 Place de la Defénse, 92053 La Defénse/Paris, France.
La Défense, a modern area with high-rise buildings, is located in the west of Paris and is a major business district of the Paris aire urbaine. This area with a size of 160 hectar are located in the three cities of Nanterre, Courbevoie and Puteaux. La Défense is named after the iconic statue "La Défense de Paris", which was erected in 1883 to commemorate the soldiers who had defended Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
In September 1958, The Public Establishment for Installation of La Défense (EPAD) buildings (of which the Esso Tower was the very first) were built and began to slowly replace the city's factories, shanties, and even a few farms. The Centre of New Industries and Technologies (CNIT) was built and first used in 1958. It is one of the first buildings built in Le Défrense and functions as convention centre, though it also houses the main offices such as that of FNAC, a media and electronics retailer found throughout Paris, as well as a Hilton hotel.
These "first generation" skyscrapers were all very similar in appearance, limited to a height of 100 metres (330 feet). In 1966, the Nobel Tower was the first office building built in the area. In 1970 the RER line A railway was opened from La Défense to Étoile.
With its 72 glass-and-steel slick buildings including 14 high-rises above 150 metres (490 ft), its 180,000 daily workers and 3.5 million squaremetres (37.7 million square feet) of office space, La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district.
The most famous building of La Défense is the Grande Arche, an almost perfect cube with a width of 108 metres, a height of 110 metres and a depth of 112 metres and covered with glass and Carrara marble from Italy. La Grande Arche, designed by the Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen, was inaugurated in July 1989 and it completed the line of monuments that forms the Axe historique running through Paris from the Louvre Museum, the Tuilerie Garden, Place de la Concorde, Avenue des Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe. The Grande Arche is turned at an angle of 6.33 degree on the axis. The most important reason for this turn was technical. A Metro station, a RER station as well as a motorway are located directly underneath the Arche and the angle was the only way to accommodate the monument's giant foundations. From an architectural point of view, the turn emphasises the depth of the monument, and is similar to the turn of the Louvre at the other end of the Axe historique.
The Hilton Paris La Défense, a stylish four-star hotel, is located within the Centre of New Industries and Technologies (CNIT) right in the business district of La Defénse and close to one of the shopping centre "Les Quatres Temps", only one express railway stop and seven minutes from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
The Hilton Paris La Défense was built in 1989 and renovated in 2008. The bright and airy hotel lobby is decorated in a contemporary style and guests enjoy latest comfort.
The hotel offers 148 spacious guestrooms, junior suites and suites on five floors and they are decorated in a contemporary style in cool and calm colour shades with latest comfort and amenities.
The restaurant "Côté Parvis" offers an extensive selection of excellent French and international cuisine in a stylish and relaxed ambience and "L'Echiquier" serves delicious French dishes as well as refreshing drinks and cocktails.
The fitness centre at the Hilton Paris La Défense is equipped with latest sport facilities and Jacuzzi.
The nine meetings and banquet room at the hotel are equipped with latest confence technology and they are perfect for business and social events for up to 240 people.
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