Burning glass of intellectual capacity.
The Bristol Vienna and its story. More
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Burning glass of intellectual capacity.
The Bristol Vienna and its story. More
Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali polymath and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature was a guest at the Hotel Bristol in Vienna in July, and at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna in October 1926.
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Dear wonderful Readers;
Do you reserve time to read and to prepare your next journeys? This year look out for our new book GRAND HOTEL LVIV (Ukraine) — a bold statement of civil resistance in a war-torn country.
THE GALLE FACE TREASURY takes you to the exotic island of Sri Lanka. It's one of my heartfelt memories of a wonderful hotel, its owning family and staff. But also it's fantastic history — being the mousetrap for every traveller of note who travelled from West to the South Eastern regions of Asia.
I recommend the new edition of HOTEL METROPOLE HANOI.
The first copies of THE HALF MOON TREASURY are being released – exclusively to our readers (and before its official launching date).
We have released a reprint of our successful book THE WESTIN EXCLESIOR ROME, the most famous hotel on Via Veneto.
Upon request, we dispatch all our books personally autographed (as you know).
Have a save journey!
Andreas Augustin
aa at famoushotels dot org
Harry S. Truman
(1884 - 1972)
33rd President of the United States
Grand Hotel Lviv in 1894 Grand Hotel Lviv – the book – available shortly. Reserve your personal autographed book now...Read More
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Happiness is made to be shared, knew the great French dramatist Jean Baptiste Racine (†1699).
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