125 AÑOS DEL REINA CRISTINA - 125 YEARS OF THE REINA CRISTINA
125 YEARS OF THE REINA CRISTINA On 27 May 1901 the Hotel Reina Cristina in Algeciras opened its doors. This year marks 125 years since a date that belongs to the whole town, and it deserves to be remembered. The Reina Cristina was born of the vision of Sir Alexander Henderson, later Lord Faringdon. His company, The Algeciras Gibraltar Railway Company, had laid the railway line from Algeciras to Bobadilla, and Henderson wished to provide both ends of the route with hotels worthy of the travellers arriving from all over Europe. He entrusted the project to the British architect Thomas Edward Collcutt, and Algeciras gained a building in the English colonial style overlooking the bay and Gibraltar. Barely five years later, the hotel entered the history books. In 1906, during the International Conference on Morocco, it accommodated delegates and journalists from across the world. Distinguished guests later passed through its rooms, from Winston Churchill to Orson Welles, and even a ...
