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Hilton Prague Atrium

hotel in Karlín, Czech Republic

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ4040675 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hilton Prague Atrium is a 791-room hotel in Prague, in the Czech Republic. It is located in the city center, near the Vltava River.

History

The Hotel Atrium Praha opened on 1 June 1991. The 11-story hotel was designed by Czech architect Stanislav Franc. Hilton International assumed management of the hotel on 1 July 1995.

The hotel was awarded Best Hotel in the Czech Republic for 2012 and 2013 at the TTG Travel Awards.

The Hilton Prague Atrium is owned by Avid Asset Management. The hotel was put up for sale in November 2014.

The Hilton hotel brand has another property in Prague, the Hilton Prague Old Town.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hilton Prague Atrium” as hotel in Karlín, Czech Republic. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1995, 2012, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989. The account is most persuasive where Hilton, Prague and Atrium can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as hotel in Karlín, Czech Republic. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4040675. Authority coordinates are 50.093, 14.439. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 1995, 2012 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hilton Prague Atrium” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.