Hotel Al Mehari is a historic hotel in Tripoli

Tripoli

Tripoli is the capital and largest city in Libya. It is also known as Western Tripoli , to distinguish it from Tripoli, Lebanon. It is affectionately called The Mermaid of the Mediterranean , describing its turquoise waters and its whitewashed buildings. Tripoli is a Greek name that means "Three...

, Libya

Libya

Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....

, near Grand Hotel Tripoli

Grand Hotel Tripoli

The Grand Hotel Tripoli, also known as Al-Kabir Hotel or Al Kabeer Hotel is a luxury hotel on Elfatah Street in Tripoli, Libya. It stands in an extensive open park which overlooks the harbour, not far from the Algerian embassy and Jamal Abd Alnaser Mosque. It has 350 rooms.It is noted for its many...

. It was built in 1935, at the same time as the Hotel Casinò Uaddan

Hotel Casinò Uaddan

Hotel Casinò Uaddan or Uaddan Hotel, today Hotel Al-Wadda, is a historic hotel in Tripoli, Libya, located overlooking the bay, just east of Grand Hotel Tripoli. Historically it was the grandest hotel in Tripoli and was referenced by an American journalist as being "the Waldorf Astoria of Tripoli"...

.Like the Uaddan, it was designed by Italian architect Florestano Di Fausto, with the collaboration of Stefano Gatti-Casazza.According to Brian McLaren in his book Architecture and tourism in Italian colonial Libya, the hotel "provided a fusion of the indigenous architecture of Tripoli with a modern aesthetic that responded to the demand for a metropolitan standard of comfort, typical to colonial tourism.