The Radisson Blu Al Mahary Hotel Tripoli is a modern tourist hotel in

Tripoli, Libya Tripoli (; ar, طرابلس الغرب, translit= Ṭarābulus al-Gharb , translation=Western Tripoli) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.1 million people in 2019. It is located in the northwe ...

, near Grand Hotel Tripoli.

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It was built in 1989 and completely remodeled in 2009 to international standards as part of

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. It is located on the site of the earlier Italian Hotel del Mehari ,Albergo del Mehari, created by architect Florestano Di Fausto
/ref> built in 1935 at the same time as the nearby Hotel Casinò Uaddan. Like the Uaddan, it was designed by Italian architect

Florestano Di Fausto Florestano Di Fausto (16 July 1890 – 11 January 1965) was an Italian architect, engineer and politician who is best known for his building designs in the Italian overseas territories around the Mediterranean. He is considered the most important ...

, with the collaboration of Stefano Gatti-Casazza. According to Brian McLaren in his book ''Architecture and tourism in Italian colonial Libya'', the destroyed Mehari 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.

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the "Grand Hotel" in Italian Tripoli
Hotels in Tripoli Hotels established in 1989 Hotel buildings completed in 1989 {{Libya-struct-stub

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