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Hotel Central

Coordinates: 22°11′39.3″N 113°32′20.8″E / 22.194250°N 113.539111°E / 22.194250; 113.539111
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22°11′39.3″N 113°32′20.8″E / 22.194250°N 113.539111°E / 22.194250; 113.539111

Hotel Central
Hotel Central in 2007
Chinese新中央酒店
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXīn Zhōngyāng Jiǔdiàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingsan1 zung1 joeng1 zau2 dim3
President Hotel
Traditional Chinese總統酒店
Simplified Chinese总统酒店
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZǒngtǒng Jiǔdiàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingzung2 tung2 zau2 dim3
Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro, with the Central Hotel on the left (circa 1955)

Hotel Central (Chinese: 新中央酒店) is an 11-storey hotel on Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro in , Macau. Historically it has also been known as President Hotel (Chinese: 總統酒店). The building was 6 storeys tall in 1928 but, after 5 more floors were added in 1942, became the tallest building in Macau. There were formerly casinos on the fifth and seventh floors of the building. It is also the first building in Macau with elevators.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ "Central Hotel". Macao Streets Homepage. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  2. ^ 新中央酒店:澳門首座摩登酒店(上). 故城.回憶 (in Chinese). 2014-10-06. Retrieved 9 June 2016.