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Construction start. 1851. Colombo Street is a main road of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. It runs south-north through the centre of Christchurch with a break at Cathedral Square. As with many other central Christchurch streets, it is named for a colonial Anglican bishopric, Colombo, Sri Lanka in what at the time was known as Ceylon.
Confeitaria Colombo was founded in 1894 by Portuguese immigrants Joaquim Borges de Meireles and Manuel José Lebrão. Its architecture, inspired by the European cafes, was representative of Rio de Janeiro's belle époque. Between 1912 and 1918, the interior halls were renovated with an Art Nouveau flair, with large crystal mirrors brought from ...
The Grand Oriental Hotel was officially opened on 5 November 1875, and had 154 luxury and semi-luxury rooms. [4] The owners were Colombo Hotels Company Ltd, [5][6] who advertised it to potential customers with the claim that it was "the only fully European owned and fully equipped hotel in the East" and "managed by experienced Europeans". [4]
Sydenham Heritage Church, originally known as the Colombo Street Methodist Church or Colombo Street Wesleyan Church or Colombo Road Wesleyan Church was a heritage-listed stone church building located in Sydenham, an inner suburb Christchurch, New Zealand. [1] It was registered as an "Historic Place – Category II " by the New Zealand Historic ...
Frank Illiano. Born. 1928. Died. January 6, 2014. New York, United States. Frank " Punchy " Illiano (1928 – January 6, 2014) was a Brooklyn Captain with the Genovese crime family. During the 1960s and 1970s, he served as a top lieutenant to the Gallo brothers in their two wars with the Colombo crime family leadership.
Sri Lankan Parliament Building. University of Ruhuna. Heritance Kandalama. Deshamanya Geoffrey Manning Bawa, FRIBA (23 July 1919 – 27 May 2003) was a Sri Lankan architect. Often referred to as the leader of the Tropical Modernist movement [1], he was among the most influential Asian architects of his generation. [2][3][4][5]
Dharshan Munidasa (born 9 November 1970) is Sri Lanka’s most renowned chef-restaurateur, is the mastermind behind some of the best restaurants in the country including Nihonbashi and Ministry of Crab; the only restaurants from Sri Lanka to have ever been ranked on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants List. [1] He was also the host of the popular TV ...
The Fig restaurant was opened in late 2023 by Shannon Sciarretta from Florida and her partner Filipe da Silva, who hails from Rio Vermelho in Brazil, in Santa Domenica Talao, a remote hillside ...