Pera Palace Hotel stands in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul, opened in 1895 to accommodate the wealthy travelers arriving on the Orient Express, the luxury train service linking Paris to Istanbul. Designed by the French-Ottoman architect Alexandre Vallaury, its exterior combines neoclassical facades with Art Nouveau ironwork around its elevator and coffee house, while its ballroom draws on Ottoman and oriental decorative motifs. The hotel is closely associated with Agatha Christie, who is said to have written parts of Murder on the Orient Express there and whose former room is preserved as a memorial to her stay, and it later hosted figures including Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene, both of whom wrote it into their own fiction. A separate room, once used by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk during visits to Istanbul, is maintained today as a small museum devoted to the founder of modern Turkey.
Facts
Building Type LocationTepebaşı, Pera, Istanbul, Turkey 1 Completed Year Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Pera Palace Hotel - Wikipedia
Source Pera Palace Hotel - Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Turkey, located there.
Sources
1. Pera Palace Hotel - Wikipedia
Lead section, type
a historic luxury hotel in the Beyoğlu (Pera) district in Istanbul, Turkey
Location section
The Pera Palace Hotel is located in the Tepebaşı neighbourhood of Pera
Lead section, opening
It opened in 1895 to host passengers from the Orient Express
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Pera Palace Hotel stands in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul, opened in 1895 to accommodate the wealthy travelers arriving on the Orient Express, the luxury train service linking Paris to Istanbul. Designed by the French-Ottoman architect Alexandre Vallaury, its exterior combines neoclassical facades with Art Nouveau ironwork around its elevator and coffee house, while its ballroom draws on Ottoman and oriental decorative motifs. The hotel is closely associated with Agatha Christie, who is said to have written parts of Murder on the Orient Express there and whose former room is preserved as a memorial to her stay, and it later hosted figures including Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene, both of whom wrote it into their own fiction. A separate room, once used by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk during visits to Istanbul, is maintained today as a small museum devoted to the founder of modern Turkey.
In Style: Art Nouveau, Wikipedia categories
Category:Art Nouveau architecture in Istanbul
In Style: Rococo Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Rococo architecture in Turkey
View the Source2. Wikidata: Pera Palace Hotel
- Wikidata Q924603, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q924603, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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