Hotel Sofitel Winter Palace Luxor
- Address: 17 Corniche el Nile
- Vicinity: Nile River, just S of Luxor Temple
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1906/00/00 | Leon Stienon | Architect | The Winter Palace Hotel is built in Luxor by the Italian construction company G GAROZZO and Figli Costruzioni in Cemento Armato, Sistema SIACCI brevettato. | |||
| 1907/01/19 | Thomas Cook and Son | Operator | Charles Baehler and George Nungovich in collaboration with Thomas Cook and Son (Egypt) open the Winter Palace hotel with lunch in the Valley of the Kings followed by a party and the distribution of meat to the workers built the hotel. | |||
| 1907/03/00 | Howard Carter | Life | Wearing a threadbare jacket, Howard Carter sets up an easel near the great marble steps leading up to the Winter Palace Hotel hoping to earn a little cash by selling painting to tourist. | |||
| 1922/11/26 | After traveling to Luxor by ship, railroad and steamboat on the Nile, Carnarvon with his daughter Evelyn alight at the Winter Palace Hotel and rush, having barely slept, to the Valley of the Kings. | |||||
| 1923/02/13 | Howard Carter | Work | Carter's Winter Palace note: Owing to impossible restrictions ... on the part of the Public Works Department and its antiquity service, all my collaborators in protest have refused to work any further upon ... the discovery of the tomb of Tut.ankhn.aman. |
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