Apart from living quarters and offices, the complex includes state drawing rooms and dining rooms for hosting dignitaries and other guests, as well as a room where the cabinet regularly meets.
5 p.m. 9. ENGLISH RITUAL Continue your journey into old Hyderabad with a trip to the Jade Room in Taj Falaknuma Palace (Engine Bowli, Falaknuma; 91-40-6629-8585; tajhotels.com; 1,500 ruperson person), a former Nizam palace turned luxury hotel that has hosted dignitaries and royalty like King George and Queen Mary.
After a tragic beginning — the hotel's general manager went down with the Titanic, just days before its grand opening — the swanky Fairmont Château Laurier (1 Rideau Street; 613-241-1414; www.fairmont.com) has gone on to greatness, routinely hosting dignitaries, politicians and the occasional queen.
Adolf Hitler, almost a deity in Triumph, is here shown much as any other hosting dignitary might, and the director seems genuinely interested in her subject, presenting what's happening in front of her rather than trying to stylise it to a pre-existing brief.
A host of dignitaries, including Gov. David A. Paterson and Commissioner Bud Selig, as well as former Mets like Rusty Staub, Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry, were in attendance.
After two minutes of silence and the singing of the national anthem, a host of dignitaries stood on the balcony over the exchange floor.
President Clinton was to lead a host of dignitaries at the funeral -- 3,500 invitations have gone out -- and the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, was to represent Pope John Paul II and officiate at tomorrow's 2 p.m. Mass.
The most memorable incident of the trip occurred the following day, during an otherwise unremarkable working lunch at Akasaka Palace, an opulent former imperial residence now used to host visiting dignitaries.
His next patient wasn't ready, so he got in his BMW (he's also got a Bentley and a Lamborghini and many other cars) and drove to his mechanic to check on the black S.U.V. he plans to use to host visiting dignitaries.
BERLIN — The preservation of a sooty parking garage covered with graffiti is a tough sell in a city whose landmarks include fragments of the wall that for decades defined the cold war, a jagged church tower that stands as testament to the ravages of World War II and elegant Prussian palaces where German leaders host visiting dignitaries.
