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hotel: The Book Hotel Faial
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phone: "(+351) 292 094 100"
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# About

 
### About The Book Hotel — A Story Reimagined

 
**Where Stories Happen, Where Hearts Stay**

 
For centuries, this building stood as the intellectual heart of Faial Island — a place of knowledge, encounter, and memory. Archive, school, library — each chapter shaped its identity.

 
Today, it reopens as a **luxury boutique hotel in Horta, Azores**, where heritage meets contemporary elegance.

 
The restoration is not just architectural — it is cultural. A continuation of everything that once lived here. Because the past is not decorative; it is structural.

 
At The Book Hotel, words are not carried away by the wind. They stay. They transform. They become part of every guest who walks through these doors.

 
#### A hotel with a cover and a back cover. A hotel with words.

 
**Mission**
 To create a place where sophistication meets culture and knowledge — where every guest can live and write their own story, at their own rhythm.

 
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[Largo do Bispo D. Alexandre, s/n Horta, Faial, Azores 9900-102 Portugal](https://maps.google.com?q=Largo+do+Bispo+D.+Alexandre%2C+s%2Fn,Horta,9900-102)  [(+351) 292 094 100
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## The Book Hotel Faial

**Address:** Largo do Bispo D. Alexandre, s/n, Horta, 9900-102, Portugal

**Phone:** (+351) 292 094 100

**Reservations:** (+351) 965 767 880

**Email:** [geral@thebookhotelfaial.pt](mailto:geral@thebookhotelfaial.pt)