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Years ago in Athens, Greece, I saw a skyscraper built with a tiny preserved chapel intact and exposed for all to see in the void deck
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Along came Yorvik, the museum preserving the viking finds in a museum on the lower floors of the skyscraper.
Jorvik, York, UK
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In Umbria in Italy a hotel has runis visible through the glass floor of a basement swimming pool.
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Now the museum hotel in Turkey has built a hotel surrounding and overlooking the glass covering the revealed ruins of a magnificent mosiac.
Museum Hotel, Antakya, Turkey
The Museum Hotel in Cappadoccia, should not be confused with the equally interesting Pera Palace Museum hotel in Instanbul, capital of Turkey.
Museum Hotel, Instanbul
A key attraction, the Atatürk Room 101 remains as a ‘Museum Room’, with many personal items and reading material of the great leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk exhibited to the public.
Literature and publications[edit]
- In Ernest Hemingway's short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, the main character, writer Harry, stays at the Pera Palace hotel while serving in the military during the Allied occupation of Constantinople (Istanbul) in World War I.
- Henry Pulling and his aunt Augusta Bertram, protagonists of Graham Greene's 1969 novel, Travels With My Aunt, stay at the Pera Palace during their Istanbul adventure.
- Detective writer Agatha Christie's 1934 novel Murder on the Orient Express was allegedly written in the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, the southern terminus of the railway. The hotel maintains Christie's room as a memorial to the author.
Because of Coronavirus COVID19 many public places are shut. But you can glimpse them online and put them on your bucket list for later.
Here's where to see the above places:
Websites
UK
YORK
Yorvik
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorvik_Viking_Centre
https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/
LONDON
Guildhall Roman Ruins
https://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/place/157999-guildhall-art-gallery-and-roman-amphitheatre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Mithraeum
TURKEY
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-8172479/Behold-Museum-Hotel-Antakya-Turkey-floats-ruins-ancient-civilisations.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ico=taboola_feed
About the author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
If you want to stay in an historic hotel, not Roman, just historic, any era, here are more options: Some are hotels containing restaurants. A few have additional cheaper motel accommodation, with a restaurant and sometimes a few suites in the main house, castle or building. See later post
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