"Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel restored to former glory
By Ayla Jean Yackley
ISTANBUL | Fri Sep 3, 2010 9:31am EDT
ISTANBUL (Reuters Life!) - The Pera Palace, once Istanbul's grandest hotel which hosted Alfred Hitchcock and Winston Churchill before it slumped into disrepair decades ago, re-opened this week after a lavish, 2-1/2 year renovation."
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