Highlights of EA Hotel Julis****
- Centre of Prague – Wenceslas Square
- Spacious rooms with built-in kitchenette
- Wooden floors without carpets in all rooms
- Free Wi-Fi connection
- Modern and comfortable equipment of the rooms
- Indoor swimming pool
- Form Factory Fitness Center
- Beautiful view of the Prague city centre
- Summer terrace with romantic view
- The unique two-storey hall of Juliš Hub 1933 and other event and conference spaces
Quiet place in the centre of Prague
EA Hotel Julis**** is located in the very centre of Prague, right on Wenceslas Square.
The hotel is ideal for business travellers, leisure clientele as well as families with children.
Hotel provides its guests with high level services.
Rooms
Large rooms with built-in kitchenette are equipped with modern, comfortable furniture and wooden floors.
The rooms have wonderful views of the city of Prague, Wenceslas Square, romantic Franciscan Garden; the rooms on the upper floors have also views of Prague Castle and Petrin Hill.
History of the building
When the confectioner Karel Juliš returned to Prague from the First World War in 1917, he decided to do business on a large scale. He bought the "U Božího oka" (At the Eye of God) house on Wenceslas Square and had it rebuilt in Cubist and later Functionalist style. The small confectionery was transformed into the famous Hotel Juliš. However, in 1919, he was not granted permission for a total reconstruction and therefore had to settle for partial modifications. To realize them, he invited the famous architect Pavel Janák, who changed the facade of the building in the Cubist style between 1919 and 1920. He preserved the basic appearance of the building, but built balconies on the first and second floors and the facade was given a modern character. Thanks to Janák's inventiveness, the bold attempt succeeded.
Czechoslovakia was hit by the Second World War, after which and the rise of communism, the Hotel Juliš was nationalized in 1948. It was given a new name, Tatran, under which the café, confectionery, and bar continued to operate. In the basement, the Paris Cinema also remained in operation, but the state maintained the building only sporadically. In the 1960s, some insensitive interventions were also carried out, which somewhat devalued Janák's original solution. The building began to gradually deteriorate and by the end of the 1980s, very little of its First Republic splendor remained. Hope for a turnaround came in 1989, after which the Karel Juliš family got the hotel back. The new owners wanted to carry out only partial repairs and continue to operate the business, but surveys showed that the building was in poor condition and a total reconstruction was inevitable. However, the Juliš family did not have enough money and therefore decided to sell the hotel. Between 1998 and 2003, an extensive reconstruction of the building took place, and it began to serve the public again.
