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La Défense (French: [la de.fɑ̃s]) is a major business district in France's Paris metropolitan area, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the city limits.It is located in Île-de-France region's department of Hauts-de-Seine in the communes of Courbevoie, La Garenne-Colombes, Nanterre, and Puteaux.
Renaissance Hotel Group N.V. operated and franchised 150 hotels with 35 based in the United States. Marriott had 1,035 hotels based in the U.S. and 75 additional hotels operating outside of the U.S. The acquisition of the Renaissance and Ramada portfolio by Marriott expanded its footprint globally. [11]
Groupe du Louvre or Louvre Hotel Group [1] is a French company operating several hotel brands with over 1700 locations headquartered in La Défense in Nanterre, France. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 2 ] History
The Marriott hotel chain began when the Hot Shoppes, Inc. restaurant company decided to diversify into hotels. Its first hotel opened in 1957 in Virginia, the Marriott Motor Hotel, adjacent to The Pentagon and Washington National Airport. [4] The company's second hotel was the nearby Marriott Key Bridge Motor Hotel, which opened in 1959. [5]
La Statue de La Défense a droit à un nouveau socle, defense-92.fr, 7 February 2017; French Sculpture Following the Franco-Prussian War, 1870–80, Michael Dorsch, p.162; La Défense de Paris, ladefense.fr; La Défense de Paris by Louis-Ernest Barrias Archived 2020-09-23 at the Wayback Machine, homeinladefense.com
Grande Arche at night. A great national design competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president François Mitterrand. Danish architect Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1929–1987) and Danish engineer Erik Reitzel (1941–2012) designed the winning entry to be a late-20th-century version of the Arc de Triomphe: a monument to humanity and humanitarian ideals rather than ...