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New Turkish hotel combines modern architecture, Roman mosaics

Ancient Antiochian mosaics and ruins are securely housed and on display inside a luxury hotel-museum in Antakya.

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Ruins and mosaics are displayed at the ground floor of the Museum Hotel in Antakya, Turkey, May 29, 2019. — The Museum Hotel Antakya

Antakya, a city on the Mediterranean border area between Turkey and Syria, has become home to a new luxury hotel built inside an archaeological park rich in precious mosaics.

In agreement, both lawmakers and scientists have praised the construction of Antakya Museum Hotel as a rare and ideal compromise between private ambitions and public interests, between business priorities and access for all.

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