Hotel Pallas

Hotel in Muonio, Finland

68°02′47.46″N 24°03′43.80″E / 68.0465167°N 24.0621667°E / 68.0465167; 24.0621667Opening7 March 1948; 76 years ago (1948-03-07)^[1]Design and constructionArchitect(s)Jouko YlihannuOther informationNumber of rooms130Number of restaurants1Websitewww.laplandhotels.com

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 Lapland Hotels [fi] 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]

References

^ Renko, Satu (30 January 2023). "Hotelli Pallaksella 75-vuotisjuhla". Levin Sanomat (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 5 January 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hautajärvi, Harri (2014). Autiotuvista lomakaupunkeihin. Lapin matkailun arkkitehtuurihistoria (in Finnish). Aalto-yliopiston taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulu, Arkkitehtuurin laitos; Aalto ARTS Books.
^ "Pallastunturin matkailuhotelli". Valtakunnallisesti merkittävät rakennetut kulttuuriympäristot RKY (in Finnish). Finnish Heritage Agency. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
^ "Pallas 1944". villesuhonet.net (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 1 October 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
^ "Raju palo tuhosi Pallas-hotellin keittiön". Kaleva (in Finnish). 16 February 2006. Archived from the original on 24 September 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
^ "Lapland Hotel Pallas avattiin jälleen" (PDF) (in Finnish). Lapland Hotels. 14 June 2006. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
^ "Pallaksen puolesta nettiadressi". Yle (in Finnish). 5 May 2008. Archived from the original on 5 January 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
^ "Pallas-hotelli sai luvan laajennukselle". Yle (in Finnish). 8 October 2009. Archived from the original on 5 January 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2024.