Hôtel des Mille Collines
The Hôtel des Mille Collines is a large hotel in Kigali, Rwanda. It became famous after 1,268 people took refuge inside the building during the Rwandan genocide of 1994.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hotel
- Description: Hôtel des Mille Collines is hotel namely in french and is located in Kigali -Rwanda and it has 4 stars
- Also known as: “Hotel des Mille Collines” and “Hotel Des Mille Collines By Kempinski”
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sainte-Famille Church and Kigali Green Complex.
Sainte-Famille Church
Church
Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sainte-Famille Church is a Catholic church in Muhima, downtown Kigali, in Rwanda. It is located on a hill, close to the cell of Rugenge. Sainte-Famille Church was the scene of killings during the genocide in April 1994. Sainte-Famille Church is situated 330 metres northeast of Hôtel des Mille Collines.
Kigali Green Complex
Kigali Green Complex, is a building under construction in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda and the largest city in that country. With 29 above-ground floors, the skyscraper is expected to be the tallest building in Kigali and Rwanda, at the time of completion. Kigali Green Complex is situated 200 metres north of Hôtel des Mille Collines.Kandt House Museum of Natural History
Museum
Photo: Adygrafix250, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kigali was named by King Cyirima I Rugwe in the 14th century by naming now known as Mount Kigali. The Kandt House Museum, formerly known as the Natural History Museum, is located in what is now the city of Kigali, Nyarugenge District, westbound. Kandt House Museum of Natural History is situated 1 km west of Hôtel des Mille Collines.
Hôtel des Mille Collines
- Categories: tourism, accommodation, and building
- Location: Kiyovu, Nyarugenge, Nyarugenge District, Kigali, Rwanda, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-1.94707° or 1° 56′ 49″ southLongitude
30.06188° or 30° 3′ 43″ eastElevation
1,542 metres (5,059 feet)Open location code
6GCG3336+5QOpenStreetMap ID
way 106280233OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=hotelOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedGeoNames ID
10172582Wikidata ID
Q938343
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Hôtel des Mille Collines” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
- Chinese: “千丘酒店”
- Dimli (individual language): “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
- Dutch: “Hotel des Mille Collines”
- Dutch: “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فندق دى ميل كولين”
- French: “hôtel des Mille Collines”
- French: “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
- Galician: “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
- German: “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
- Indonesian: “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
- Italian: “Hotel des Mille Collines”
- Italian: “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
- Japanese: “オテル・デ・ミル・コリン”
- Kinyarwanda: “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
- Norwegian: “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
- Polish: “Hotel des Mille Collines”
- Portuguese: “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
- Spanish: “Hotel des Mille Collines”
- Spanish: “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
- Swedish: “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
- Turkish: “Hôtel des Mille Collines”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hôtel des Mille Collines”. Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.