Historic hotel on Gibraltar’s Cathedral Square with garden and pool.
Bristol Hotel is Gibraltar’s oldest hotel, on Cathedral Square beside the Church of England Cathedral of The Holy Trinity and the Gibraltar Museum. Established in the 19th century, it occupies a white colonial building with swimming pool, subtropical garden and 60 rooms, and served as a World War II Royal Air Force headquarters.
Bristol Hotel is Gibraltar’s oldest hotel, located at 10 Cathedral Square in Gibraltar. It stands next to the Church of England Cathedral of The Holy Trinity and the Gibraltar Museum, in a white colonial building with a swimming pool and subtropical garden. The hotel was established in the 19th century and named after Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, an extensive traveller of Europe. It has 60 rooms and is one of many European hotels named Bristol. During World War II the hotel served as the headquarters of the Royal Air Force and of a squadron of British flying boats, and it also functioned as a temporary residence for British officers in transit. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries it hosted notable guests. Admiral George Dewey stayed briefly in 1899 before returning to the United States, receiving many visitors at the hotel. In 1915 Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, known as Princess Salm Salm, lived at the hotel as a guest of the Queen of Spain while her husband, Prince Emmanuel Salm, was held as a prisoner of war in Gibraltar. In 1928 Rear Admiral Bernard Collard stayed at the Bristol during the court martial of Captain Kenneth Dewar.
