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The four-star Sofitel Cecil Alexandria Hotel in Alexandria Egypt was built as the Cecil Hotel in 1929 by the French-Egyptian Jewish Metzger family as a romantic hotel at Saad Zaghloul square where Cleopatra’s needles had been in front of the Corniche. Author Somerset Maugham stayed here as did Winston Churchill and Al Capone. Moreover the British Secret Service maintained a suite for their operations.

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address
16 Saad Zagloul Square
location
Alexandria, Egypt
number of rooms
82
tenant
Sofitel_Hotels
latitude
31.2008
longitude
29.8984

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