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Ruined forts, palaces and havelis become working hotels that help sustain their rural surroundings.
Neemrana Hotels restores Indian forts, palaces, and havelis and runs them as hotels. Aman Nath bought the ruined 15th-century Neemrana Fort in 1986. It opened as a hotel in 1991. The word people use for the method, including Nath, is Neemranification: restoration that keeps a rural place working.
4 Neemrana Hotels hotels in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Founded by Aman Nath and Francis Wacziarg
- Worldwide: The Cornell case says that by 2020 the company had narrowed from 24 hotels to 18. The atlas files four: Neemrana Fort-Palace, Tijara Fort-Palace, The Piramal Haveli, and Deo Bagh.
- On the atlas: 4 Accessible Luxury
History
Neemrana Hotels restores Indian forts, palaces, and havelis and runs them as hotels. Aman Nath bought the ruined 15th-century Neemrana Fort in 1986. It opened as a hotel in 1991. The word people use for the method, including Nath, is Neemranification: restoration that keeps a rural place working.
Timeline
- 1977 — Aman Nath and Francis Wacziarg, researching a book, come upon the ruined Neemrana Fort, about 120 kilometres from Delhi.
- 1986 — Nath, with Lekha Poddar and O. P. Jain, buys the fort from the Raja of Neemrana. The first aim is a private restoration.
- 1991 — The fort opens as a hotel. The company's own page dates the opening to 1991.
- 1992 — Wacziarg joins Nath. The fort is then a 15-room hotel.
- 1993 — Neemrana Hotels is incorporated as a joint venture between Nath and Wacziarg.
- 2012 — Deo Bagh, in Gwalior, is dated 2012 in the atlas, 15 rooms.
- 2014 — Francis Wacziarg dies.
- 2016 — Tijara Fort-Palace is dated 2016 in the atlas, 40 rooms.
- 2020 — A Cornell case records the portfolio at 18 hotels, down from 24.
The houses to know
- Neemrana Fort-Palace, Neemrana, India — Originally built starting in 1464 and abandoned in 1947, this medieval fort was acquired for restoration in 1986 and opened as a hotel in 1991.
- Tijara Fort-Palace, Tijara, India — Tijara Fort-Palace finishes a 19th-century Rajput-Afghan hill fort that stood incomplete for generations above the mustard fields of Alwar district.
- Deo Bagh, Gwalior, India — A Neemrana hotel in a historic char bagh garden at Jadhav Kothi in Gwalior, with 15 rooms (three suites) in five wings facing the garden.
- The Piramal Haveli, Bagar, India — An eight-room Neemrana hotel in the 1928 haveli of Seth Piramal Chaturbhuj Makharia at Bagar in the painted-wall Shekhawati region; all rooms open onto the outer courtyard.
Newest openings
- None of the open houses filed in the atlas carry a 2024 or later date.
Opening next
- No named unopened hotel was verified.
Every Neemrana Hotels hotel on the atlas
India
- Deo Bagh — Gwalior · Accessible Luxury
- Neemrana Fort-Palace — Neemrana · Accessible Luxury
- The Piramal Haveli — Bagar · Accessible Luxury
- Tijara Fort-Palace — Tijara · Accessible Luxury
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