Grandhotel Pupp

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The Grandhotel Pupp (IPA: [pʊp]) is a 228-room luxury hotel located in Carlsbad, Czech Republic. The hotel hosts the annual Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

The hotel began as the Saxony Hall, built in 1701 by Burgomaster Deiml. A later mayor, Becher, built a Lusthaus on a plot of land he owned at right-angles to the Saxony Hall. This became known as the Bohemia Hall. Johann Georg Pupp (Czech: Jan Jiří Pop), a confectioner, came to Carlsbad in 1760 and worked for a local confectioner called Mitterbach. The widow of former mayor Becher sold a one-third share in the Bohemia Hall to Mitterbach's daughter, who married Pop in 1775. The following year, she bought another third and her husband the remaining third, giving the Pupp family complete ownership of the hall.

The family prospered in the following decades and was able to buy the Saxony Hall in 1890. Between 1896 and 1907, the Viennese architects Fellner and Helmer rebuilt the various family-owned buildings into the neo-Baroque Grandhotel Pupp that stands today. Up until the Second World War the family continued to acquire neighbouring properties and incorporate them into the hotel complex.

After the war, the Communist government of Czechoslovakia nationalised the hotel and it was renamed Grandhotel Moskva in 1950. The hotel's original name was restored in 1989 and it has since been privatised.

The Grandhotel Pupp was a major location for the 2006 movie Last Holiday starring Queen Latifah. It also appears in the new James Bond film Casino Royale as Hotel Splendide in Montenegro.