Grand Hotel (Taipei)

'Yuanshan Great Hotel') is a landmark located at Yuanshan (圓山) in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan.

It is owned by the Duen-Mou Foundation of Taiwan, a non-profit organization, and has played host to many foreign dignitaries who have visited Taipei.

Finally, on the Double Tenth Day in 1973, the main Grand Hotel building was completed and became an instant Taipei icon.

With its vermilion columns, the roof makes the hotel a visible showcase of Chinese architecture and culture.

The hotel also features auditoriums and meeting rooms, making it a popular venue for conventions and conferences in Taiwan.

The secret passages were revealed to be two air-raid tunnels, each of them 180 m in length leading to nearby parks, not to the presidential residence or the emergency headquarters as rumours had suggested.

The hotel used to use bronze spade money as its room key card - which also appears on the embler of the Ministry of Finance (Taiwan).