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Sztarill Palace, EMKE Café, Astoria Hotel

Astoria Hotel
Sztarill Palace, EMKE Café, Astoria Hotel
Astoria Hotel
EMKE cafe Nagyvárad
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Original function:
house
restaurant / confectionery / café
hotel / tavern / guesthouse
Current function:
hotel / tavern / guesthouse
Settlement:
Nagyvárad, Oradea
Address:
Strada Teatrului 1-2
Historical Hungarian county:
Bihar
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
47.0573258492, 21.9301804168
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History

It was built in 1902 by the architect Starill Ferenc (1859-1943), who also designed it in the Art Nouveau style. Starill was mainly a builder, but he designed quite a few buildings himself. The Starill Palace had apartments on the upper floor and the famous EMKE Café (EMKE stands for the Transylvanian Hungarian Cultural Association) on the ground floor. The literary café was the venue for meetings of young journalists and poets, the main figurehead of which was the poet Ady Endre (his memorial plaque is on the wall of the house). In the 1930s it was converted into a hotel called Astoria. The hotel was closed after the Second World War. It was reopened after 1975, but the Art Nouveau decoration of the café was not retained.

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