The Hotel Grande Bretagne, is a luxury hotel in Athens, Greece. It is located next to Syntagma Square. The original structure was built in 1842 as a house for Antonis Dimitriou, a wealthy Greek businessman from the island of Limnos, only twelve years after independence of Greece from the Ottoman Empire. In 1874 it was bought by Efstathios Lampsas, who restored the mansion and named it "Grande Bretagne." By 1888 the hotel had electricity installed. During the Greco-Italian War and the Battle of Greece in 1940–41, the hotel housed the Greek General Headquarters. Following the Axis occupation of Greece, the hotel served as the Nazi headquarters. British forces made the hotel their headquarters at the end of the war in 1944.In 2003, Hotel Grande Bretagne underwent a €112-million renovation to restore it to its former glory. The hotel has 320 rooms and suites, including a 400-square-metre suite on the fifth floor.