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BUZESCU, ROMANIA - With their soaring marble columns, turrets and pagoda-style roofs, elaborate mansions built by affluent Roma dot Romania's countryside in their thousands.Amid modest surroundings of fields or small towns, the so-called Roma palaces seem improbable, even outlandish, but reveal a quest for status within a marginalized and mostly poor minority.They began springing up in the early 1990s after the collapse of communism, when some in the Roma community came into money, they say, mostly by collecting and selling scrap iron or by doing petty trading.Now spread across one of the EU's poorest members, the imposing buildings, estimated to number several thousand, often stand several storys high, as neighbors add floors to outdo one another.Decorative flourishes such as a US...
August 09, 2019
Romania's 'Roma palaces', a status symbol for poor minority
May 28, 2019
Heroes welcome for 2 Saudi climbers
April 24, 2019
Experience the flavors at the oberoi, Madina
By Shams Ahsan
Saudi Gazette
Monte-Carlo SBM, a home for luxury tourism in Europe, is wooing Saudi tourists with exclusive offers such as art of living, privacy, fine dining and organic food.
Gulf countries rank fourth in terms of tourists visiting Monte-Carlo Societé des Bains de Mer, which has the most prestigious establishments in Monaco, Eric Bessone, senior press relations manger Monaco, Middle East, Asia, told Saudi Gazette.
Eric along with Ivan Artolli, GM of Hotel de Paris, and Sandro Cotza, business development director of Monte Carlo Bay, was in the Kingdom to promote SBM which boasts of four hotels, 33 restaurants with seven prestigious Guide Michelin stars, an opera house, sports clubs.
More than 50 luxury goods companies — some of them very prestigious — are...
April 11, 2019
Monte-Carlo SBM woos Saudi tourists
January 23, 2019
This is the football we like to talk about
January 16, 2019
Winter at Tantora Festival announced in Al-Ula
December 19, 2018
Roads of Arabia: Archaeological Treasures of Saudi Arabia opens at Louvre Abu Dhabi
December 12, 2018
Scheduling holiday travel in US during December
December 12, 2018
Exploring Agra
December 05, 2018
Celebrating Arab Heritage — Qasr Al Hosn-bringing people together
