Hotel El-Aurassi is a luxury five-star hotel in Algiers

Algiers

' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000...

, Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

. Established in 1975 and in grounds of some 125,850 square metres, the 14-storey hotel contains 455 rooms and 31 suites.The hotel was designed by Italian architect Luigi Moretti

Luigi Moretti

Luigi Walter Moretti was an Italian architect.- Education and academic career :He was born in via Napoleone III, on the Esquiline Hill, in the same apartment where he lived almost his entire life...

who died before the hotel was completed. The Algerian government reportedly has an 80% share in the company that operates the hotel.