Hotel Tobruk
{{Short description|Hotel in Tobruk, Libya}}
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| location = {{flagicon|Libya}} Tobruk, Libya
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| opening_date = 1937
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History
The hotel Tobruk was built in 1937. It was located at the entrance of the port, the last stop before the Egyptian border.{{cite book|last=McLaren|first=Brian|title=Architecture and tourism in Italian colonial Libya: an ambivalent modernism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_lrYlxdX7DIC&pg=PA194|accessdate=9 March 2011|year=2006|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-98542-8|page=194}}
It provided shelter for Erwin Rommel during the Siege of Tobruk in World War II.{{cite book|last=Jörgensen|first=Christer|title=Rommel's Panzers: Rommel and the Panzer Forces of the Blitzkrieg 1940-42|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mfWsGNlcyPIC&pg=PA127|accessdate=9 March 2011|date=August 2003|publisher=Zenith Imprint|isbn=978-0-7603-1481-4|page=127}}
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Category:Hotels established in 1937
Category:1937 establishments in Libya
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