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Location: New luxury business-hotel Continental
is situated in the very heart of Odesa, on Derybasivska
street, within a 5 minutes walk from the
main sightseeing attractions and business centres.
Capacity: Business-hotel Continental offers 32 luxuriously
decorated rooms in 5 categories: VIPapartments,
Suite, Junior Suite, Standard and
Economy. Every room is furnished with all the
modern comforts a business traveller requires.
Notes: The hotel offers transfers, VIP-service at
the airport, conference facilities, parking, sightseeing
tours, restaurant Voyage (Italian cuisine)
and other services.
In our hotel we will offer you a highly personalized
service, which will undoubtedly make your stay
pleasant.
Certificate # UA 9.003.00240-06 issued on 23 February 2006 by the State Committee on Technical Issues and Consumer Policy of Ukraine
5, Derybasivska Str., Odesa,
65026, Ukraine
Phone: + 38 (048) 786 0 155
Reception: + 38 (048) 786 0 399
Fax: + 38 (048) 786 0 550
E-mail: hotelcont@utel.net.ua
Website: www.continental-hotel.com.ua
Odesa
Odesa is simply enchanting with its marvelous architecture. Odesa’s history as a thriving
enterprise has left the city with some splendid architecture from the 18th and 19th centuries
and a multifaceted, irrepressible spirit. Some buildings display a carious mixture
of different styles, such as distinct French architecture with a distinct Russian flavor, and
some are built in the Art Nouveau Style which was in vogue at the turn of the century. Its
stately 19th century classical architecture is set on orderly planned streets that are surrounded
with green space, giving the city an air of elegance.
Strikingly ornate buildings of the late 19th and early 20th century are reminiscent of
Right Bank Paris. Most buildings in Odesa were built with white stone consisting of calcareous
materials imbedded with seashells, which appears to be saturated with hot sunshine.
This gives many of the city’s buildings a whitewashed appearance. The extracted
limestone resulted in the formation of an entire labyrinth of underground galleries.
One of the few planned cities in Ukraine, Odesa’s central core is laid out in a grid. The first
city plan designed by the engineer F. Devollan in the late 18th century was executed by
the generations of Odesa architects that followed. As early as the first half of the 19th
century, the numerous landowners who had moved to Odesa attracted by the profitable
grain trade, started constructing their private residences. As a rule, they would build
palace compounds: two-storied mansions with forecourts, wrought iron grilles and porticos
indicating the entrance. Even today, the formal halls of these palaces are strikingly
opulent. The mansions of wealthy merchants and factory-owners built to the designs of
the best Odesa architects were concealed in the verdure of Frantsuzky Boulevard.