Emirates Palace
The color harmony that combines the color of the desert with all its ripples gives the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi an eastern character enhanced by the way it is built in the form of an Arab palace, which has made it an architectural masterpiece, especially as it reflects between its alleys, originality derived from Arab heritage, So that the scene seems integrated. It is a "surprising sight" that some people describe without knowing that it was built on the basis of being a cultural and tourist landmark that distinguishes the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Standing high above the plateau, overlooking the Gulf Coast. This is what the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi is all about, which gives the scene a nightly poetic feeling when its details break between waves that are often quiet.
**Domes in gold and silver**
The Emirates Palace Hotel, one of the most luxurious hotels in the world, was built in the style of an Arabian palace overlooking the Gulf. It is located on a sandy beach of 1.3 km long. Every detail shows that everything was in its proper place and was never random. 3 years: December 2001 to December 2001. While the construction stages required the efforts of twenty thousand people. The 114-dome dome is adorned with magnificent glass mosaic panels. The largest dome is 42 meters in diameter. It is decorated with gold and silver, and is decorated with colored glass panels, which make light pass through it quietly.
In addition to this main dome, the main theater and other places cover a 17-meter dome, decorated in the same style as the rest of the domes, which are smaller in other places, sometimes up to 12.7 meters in diameter, with a smaller diameter of 2.9 meters , All adding a charming luster to the place especially at nightfall, which can be spotted from many places throughout the emirate. While the arches of victory, which represents one of the entrances to the palace, awe of the place, and recall the scenes of ancient history, especially as the height of the arch up to 40 meters.
While its width is 36 meters and is made up of an interconnected grid of GRC clad with Italian stones. It is a royal ambience that gives the traveler a sense of uniqueness and takes him from the real world to the imagination, from the entrance, whose floor is adorned with exquisite natural marble paintings, to be found in more than one corner, like the blue saloon next to the grand hall. The road to a palace restaurant, while walking to the eastern wing of the palace, is a lined invitation to reflect on the columns of marble and arches that are lit by Arab-style flares.
**Tourist destination**
The most intriguing place in the world, designed by John Elliot, one of the world's leading designers of hotel and resort design, is a graduate of the London Institute of Architectural Design, where he completed his academic studies at the Hellensky Institute of Technology, He also served as the Director of the King Abdulaziz University Project in Jeddah, also the interior designer of Sheraton Qatar, and many other projects in many Arab, European and African countries. Elliot sees the Emirates Palace as something different.
"I wanted him to be a tourist destination that distinguished Abu Dhabi," he said before opening the hotel. Indeed, when you go to the palace for any purpose, you have to see many tourists and residents, taking photographs from outside the palace, next to a beautiful fountain, , They are kept forever beside this rare place, which has been distributed in the corridors of many huge chandeliers, which number to 1002.
It is made of the finest types of crystal, model: Suravsky. And made it Elliot harmonious with the classic model of the kiln, in accordance with the architectural style of the palace, which is keen by the company "KII", which developed the interior design, maintaining this character in the rooms that amounted to 302 luxury rooms, along with 92 royal suites, And two health resorts, spread over the upper floors of the building. The palace has been dedicated to VIP guests and dignitaries.
There are also many restaurants that reflect the different culinary cultures, each of which offers selected items from state cuisine, from the west to the east, to the local, which serves different types of Emirati cuisine, which attracts the non-UAE audience.
**Events**
The Emirates Palace, owned by the Government of Abu Dhabi, is a distinguished architectural edifice that has been managed since its opening by Kempinski Hotels & Resorts, which manages hotels in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and Asia. The administration is keen to provide everything that suits the luxurious style on which the palace is built. The name of the Emirates Palace is associated with many events and events taking place in Abu Dhabi, such as hosting one of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit sessions, the Abu Dhabi Film Festival and music festivals such as the Abu Dhabi Festival. And concerts, such as the festival of Fairouz. And other political, economic and intellectual conferences, which host many world figures, as if to tell the world these huge events, it is a place suitable for everything that is effective and effective in the lives of communities.