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Jetwing Hotels Management Services (Private) Limited. Website. jetwinghotels .com. Jetwing Hotels Limited is a Sri Lankan hotel chain. Jetwing was founded in the 1970s by Herbert Cooray when he purchased the Blue Oceanic Hotel in Negombo from its Swedish owner Vingressor and renamed it Jetwing. [2] Cooray founded Jetwing Travels in 1981. [3]
Blue Water Hotel. / 6.67778°N 79.92056°E / 6.67778; 79.92056. Blue Water Hotel is a 5-star boutique hotel in Wadduwa, Sri Lanka. It is notable for being Geoffrey Bawa ’s last hotel project and the last project he supervised on site before succumbing to illness. [1]
Saman Villas. / 6.395511; 80.00455. Saman Villas is located in the fishing village of Aturuwella, near the south west coastal town of Bentota, Sri Lanka. Saman Villas opened its doors on Christmas Day in 1995. [1] It is Sri Lanka's first boutique hotel.
Ploshchad Vosstaniya in Saint Petersburg 28 June 2006 at 11 p.m., demonstrating the degree of sunlight still present during White Nights. The White Nights Festival is an annual summer festival in Saint Petersburg celebrating its midnight twilight phenomena due to its location near the Arctic Circle; each year between around April 22 and August 21, the skies only reach twilight and never reach ...
Completed. 1907. Website. Savior on the Spilled Blood. The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood ( Russian: Церковь Спаса на Крови, Tserkovʹ Spasa na Krovi) [a] is a Russian Orthodox church in Saint Petersburg, Russia which currently functions as a secular museum and church at the same time. The structure was constructed ...
Treasures of St Petersburg & The Hermitage, (2003) a three-part documentary series for Channel 5 in the UK, directed by Graham Addicott and produced by Pille Runk. Hermitage Revealed (2014) is a BBC documentary from Margy Kinmonth. The film tells the story of its journey from imperial palace to state museum, investigating remarkable tales of ...
Lakhta Centre. / 59.98694°N 30.17778°E / 59.98694; 30.17778. The Lakhta Centre (Russian: Ла́хта це́нтр, romanized: Lahta tsentr) is an 87-story skyscraper [5] built in the northwestern neighbourhood of Lakhta in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Standing 462 metres (1,516 ft) tall, it is the tallest building in both Russia and ...
Catherine Park. Coordinates: 59°42′54″N 30°24′00″E. The Catherine Park ( Russian: Екатерининский парк) is the large landscaped area to the south of the Catherine Palace, located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo ( Pushkin ), 25 km south-east of St. Petersburg, Russia . The park has two parts: a formal 18th century Dutch ...