Ducor Hotel

6.3202777777778 - 10.813055555556Koordinaten 6 ° 19 ' 13 "N, 10 ° 48' 47 " W

The Ducor Hotel is a former, part of the InterContinental Hotels Group hotel belonging in the Liberian capital Monrovia.

Built on the Ducor Hill luxury hotel was built by the Israeli construction company Mayer Brothers since 1960 and put into service in 1967, it was considered one of the finest hotels in West Africa. It was the venue for numerous conferences. The architecturally oriented to European hotels of the 1960s building has 300 rooms, which had an unobstructed view of the Atlantic coast and the port of Monrovia. During the Civil War the hotel was closed for visitors, temporarily held up a part of the government apparatus of the interim government on in the rooms, in December 1989 was followed by the closure. Despite guarding the building complex was repeatedly attacked by Plünderen, partially burned and is now in ruins.

A renovation was offered by the Libyan state, and estimated at 55 million U.S. dollars. Given the parlous situation in Monrovia this reconstruction is unlikely.