Hotel Pallas Explained

Hotel Name:Hotel Pallas
Location:Muonio, Finland
Address:Pallastunturintie 560, 99330 Pallas
Chain:Lapland Hotels
Coordinates:68.0465°N 24.0622°W
Opening Date:[1]
Architect:Jouko Ylihannu
Number Of Rooms:130
Number Of Restaurants:1

Hotel Pallas is a wilderness hotel located in the Pallastunturi Ski Center in Muonio, Finland. The hotel was designed by architect Jouko Ylihannu and was opened in 1948.[2] [3]

The former functionalist style hotel designed by architects Väinö Vähäkallio and Aulis E. Hämäläinen, completed in 1938 and blown up by the Germans in October 1944 when they left Lapland during the Lapland War, was located about a kilometer from the site of the current hotel.[2] [4]

The log part of the building has features of the romanticism of the reconstruction period, although it has been considerably renovated.[2] After a fire destroyed the kitchen, the hotel was closed during the winter season in 2006,[5] but it was opened again in the summer of the same year.[6]

The hotel is part of the private chain. Due to Lapland Hotels' wish, a law change is being prepared, after which it could build a hotel six times larger than before in the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park. A civic movement was founded to oppose the project in 2008,[7] but permission was granted for the hotel extension in 2009.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hotelli Pallaksella 75-vuotisjuhla. Satu. Renko. Levin Sanomat. 30 January 2023. 4 January 2024. fi. 5 January 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240105054221/https://www.levinsanomat.com/hotelli-pallaksella-75vuotisjuhla-6.228.31824.19261b9791. live.
  2. Book: Hautajärvi, Harri . Autiotuvista lomakaupunkeihin. Lapin matkailun arkkitehtuurihistoria . 2014 . Aalto-yliopiston taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulu, Arkkitehtuurin laitos; Aalto ARTS Books . fi .
  3. Web site: Pallastunturin matkailuhotelli. Valtakunnallisesti merkittävät rakennetut kulttuuriympäristot RKY. Finnish Heritage Agency. 4 January 2024. fi. 17 July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230717070950/http://www.rky.fi/read/asp/r_kohde_det.aspx?KOHDE_ID=2180. live.
  4. Web site: Pallas 1944. villesuhonet.net. 4 January 2024. fi. 1 October 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231001224920/https://villesuhonen.net/pallas-1944/. live.
  5. Web site: Raju palo tuhosi Pallas-hotellin keittiön. Kaleva. 16 February 2006. 4 January 2024. fi. 24 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200924063632/https://www.kaleva.fi/raju-palo-tuhosi-pallas-hotellin-keittion/2114928. live.
  6. Web site: Lapland Hotel Pallas avattiin jälleen. Lapland Hotels. 14 June 2006. 4 January 2024. fi. 28 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160428002758/https://www.laplandhotels.com/media/tiedotteet/20060803151520.pdf. live.
  7. Web site: Pallaksen puolesta nettiadressi. Yle. 5 May 2008. 4 January 2024. fi. 5 January 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240105054247/https://yle.fi/a/3-5833675. live.
  8. Web site: Pallas-hotelli sai luvan laajennukselle. Yle. 8 October 2009. 4 January 2024. fi. 5 January 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240105054220/https://yle.fi/a/3-5895900. live.

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