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Heritage Lisbon Hotels
Industry Hotel
Founded 1998
Founder António Duarte Martins, Arménio Galvão Fernandes
Number of locations
5 hotels
Area served
Portugal
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Heritage Lisbon Hotels are a small hotel chain which goal is the recovery and adaptation of ancient houses or historical buildings to hotels, located in Lisbon; Portugal’s capital city.
Thanks to the grupo’s investment on historical and traditional houses in the center of Lisbon, maintaining a small number of rooms, these 5 charm hotels bring to memory historical and traditional buildings of Lisbon, from the belle époque hotels in new avenues to the 16th-century palace.
History
Heritage Lisbon Hotels history starts in 1931 when António Duarte Martins decided to invest his capital - acquired during his life in Brazil in the beginning of the 20th century – to build an old palace on Avenida da Liberdade to transform it in a hotel. The recovery project given to Architecture Norte Júnior was the start to today’s Tivoli hotels.[citation needed] The Tivoli – Duarte Martins partnership would last until 1941, when the firm Duarte, Cardoso e Machaz, Lda. was created, acquiring the 185 da Avenida da Liberdade building to enlarge the Tivoli hotel. Duarte Martins sold his part in the company on 1944 and opened the Hotel Condestável Lda firm, buying and creating the Condestável Hotel, opened on the April 28, 1954 by António Duarte Martins and Arménio Galvão Fernandes. This hotel explored a concept of modernity and, as architect Lucínio Cruz stated, “promotes its guest a tue well being by simple solutions”. It was one of the first hotels in the city offering in all its 63 bedrooms a private bathroom. Between 1975 and 1978, the company lived difficult moments due to the economical and political reality in the country. Its recovery was only possible with the employees dedication that recognized the company efforts in maintaining the Hotel running normally. At this same time the hotel changed its name to Lisboa Plaza. This effort saw results on the 1990s with the creation of the company named Hoteis Plasa S.A. maintaining Lisboa Plaza and expanding it.
The 90s were decisive to the company’s history with the acquisition of three new buildings: As Janelas Verdes, of the York house on 1994; Solar do Castelo, located in the São Jorge Castle in 1995 and the Britania Hotel in 1996. This acquisition where accomplished by the Cardoso and Alves de sousa families. Finally, in 1998 the Heritage Hotels brand was created with the mission of offering its clients a stay full of the typical Portuguese Hospitality, History and Tradition in small charm hotels – ancient houses and/or Historical buildings – located in the center of Lisbon. In 1999 the recovery of the ancient Palacete das Cozinhas,[1] located in the São Jorge Castle, started and became Solar do Castelo. The last hotel was officially opened on 2007 in the middle of Avenida da Liberdade, in a recovered XVIII building.