Renovation work begins on Prague’s Art Nouveau Hotel Evropa

Renovation work has begun on the dilapidated Art Nouveau Hotel Evropa on Prague’s Wenceslas Square. The overhaul of the once famous hotel should be completed in a year and a half. Alongside the renovation of the listed building an entirely new construction is set to go up in the courtyard it shares with a number of other buildings. Opened in 1872, the hotel was renamed Grand Hotel Evropa after being nationalised soon after the communist takeover.