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...Website; Directions Galle Face Hotel, Colombo 2 Galle Road, Colombo 3 As historic spaces go, this one, south Asia’s grand-dame hotel, is particularly fabulous, and despite my ancestral connection, I love...
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...The CEO of the hospitality group Paris Society, de Gourcuff first set eyes on the Abbaye in winter 2019. Now, after a long, careful renovation, he is revealing the hotel for the first time....
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