Las Vegas’ famous Bellagio opens in Shanghai – minus the casino, but with all the glitz of its namesake

An Astor House Hotel has, in various architectural forms, stood on the same site, just north of the Shanghai Bund, since the 1850s. Though no relation, it was named, and to an extent modelled, after New York’s first luxury hotel (Astor House, which …
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