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Hotel Bristol Vienna (Austria; 1892)
Burning glass of intellectual capacity.
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St Regis Grand Hotel – Rome, Italy (English)
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In 1894 Cesar Ritz opened the Grand Hotel as the most elegant hotel of Rome. Auguste Escoffier was his first chef. Diplomats, heads of ...
Metropole – Hanoi, Vietnam (English)
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'In the evenings gentlemen were always dressed in elegant white tropical suites, wearing a topee or a Panama hat. During th...
Excelsior – Rome, Italy (English)
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This is a reprint of the original edition, with various updates (2018). On 17 January 1906, the civic authorities, inc...
The Strand – Yangon, Myanmar (English)
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It has taken us almost 20 years to research the history of The Strand, the incredible and legendary most famous hotel of Yangon. ...
Ritz – Madrid, Spain (Spanish)
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Ritz. — Mucho más que un nombre. Sinónimo de calidad y excelencia y eufemismo que describe un mundo fuera del alcan...
Ritz – Madrid, Spain (English)
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The Ritz Madrid was built in 1910, following the hotel-concept of the legendary César Ritz. Ritz is a synonym for quality, for e...
The Savoy – London, England (English)
Here is the story of the craddle of British hospitality — told by Andrew Williamson and Andreas Augustin. In the summer of 1889 &...
The Imperial – New Delhi, India (French)
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Quel est le fruit de la rencontre entre l’un des plus importants constructeurs de la nouvelle ville de Delhi et l’une des p...
The Imperial – New Delhi, India (English)
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What do you get when one of the most important Indian constructors of the new city of Delhi meets one of the most ambitious social lad...
Hotel Sacher – Wien (Deutsch)
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In Wien „geht man in’s Hotel“. Aber warum gehe ich ins Hotel? Wegen der Torte? Die könnte ich mir schicken lasse...
Hotel Sacher – Vienna, Austria (English)
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The Hotel Sacher is a Viennese institution. It opened its doors in 1876. Franz Sacher invented in 1932, what is today protected by trad...
Hotel Bristol – Wien, Österreich (Deutsch)
Die Geschichte des 1892 eröffneten Wiener Hotels Bristol ist voller interessanter und liebevoller Details. In episodenhaften Erz&a...
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Dear wonderful Readers;
Days like this lead to endless hours at home, time for books, time to read and to prepare our next journeys.
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.
The new edition of THE STRAND (Yangon,Myanmar) receives wonderful readers' feedback — thank you for your notes and mails.
There is a hotel in Seefeld, Tyrol, Austria, which stands for all the fables and legends this little olympic village has to tell. It is called ASTORIA, and run by legendary hotelier Elisabeth Gürtler. Our new book SEEFELDER MINIATUREN - ASTORIA - A STORY - A LEGEND is available now – in this store. It is in German, only (for the time being).
Upon request, we dispatch all our books personally autographed (as you know).
Have a save journey!
Andreas Augustin
aa at famoushotels dot org
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