- Title: At historic Aleppo hotel, nostalgia for a Syria lost
- Date: 30th July 2017
- Summary: ALEPPO, SYRIA (JULY 14, 2017) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF BARON HOTEL INSCRIPTION ON WALL READING (English): "BARON'S HOTEL" VARIOUS OF DOOR TO LOBBY HOTEL LOBBY SKETCH OF HOTEL DAMAGED CEILING DAMAGED CEILING / OWNER OF BARON HOTEL, ROUBINA TASHJISN, WALKING THROUGH ROOM DAMAGED WALL FURNITURE SEEN THROUGH GAP IN DAMAGED WALL (SOUNDBITE) (English) OWNER OF BARON HOTEL, ROUBINA TASHJISN, SAYING: "We were hit five times. Twice when my husband was alive on the balcony over there in the back and three times last Ramadan last year, Ramadan 2016. It was, those were very terrible days, terrible days." VARIOUS OF DAMAGED CEILING DOOR TO ROOM WHERE BRITISH MILITARY OFFICER, T.E. LAWRENCE (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA), STAYED INTERIOR OF ROOM SKETCH OF LAWRENCE IN THE ROOM INTERIOR OF ROOM BATHROOM CORRIDOR OUTSIDE ROOM USED BY LAWRENCE VARIOUS OF ANOTHER ROOM (SOUNDBITE) (English) OWNER OF BARON HOTEL, ROUBINA TASHJISN, SAYING: "It's sad, sad, very very sad. I don't think these things will come back. They might restore the souqs, they might restore some of the mosques." HOTEL BAR TABLE AND CHAIRS IN THE CORNER OLD POSTERS OF WHISKY BRANDS VARIOUS OF WOODEN BARREL VARIOUS OF BOTTLES OF ALCOHOL
- Embargoed: 13th August 2017 09:55
- Keywords: Aleppo hotel Baron hotel Syria historic landmark lost Syria Roubina Tashjisn Aleppo destruction Lawrence of Arabia
- Location: ALEPPO, SYRIA
- City: ALEPPO, SYRIA
- Country: Syria
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA0016RWPT8N
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: The historic Baron Hotel in Aleppo, now damaged from years of war, still holds reminders of a Syria lost.
Founded by an Armenian family in 1911, the hotel played host to adventurers, writers, kings, aviators, Bedouin chiefs and presidents until war forced it to close five years ago.
The hotel, in west Aleppo near the front line, was hit by mortar bombs, including one that sprayed shrapnel across an upper floor and another that crashed through the window of its "Oriental Room" onto delicate floor tiles, but failed to explode.
The tail fin from that round now sits in the Baron's cabinet of curiosities alongside such relics as pottery given by visiting archaeologists and a bill for British military officer T.E. Lawrence, who famously stayed in one of the rooms. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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