Iranian Caravanserais. The First Motels?
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No one is really knows for certain when the first hotels or inns appeared, there are several biblical references to inns and we are all familiar with the story of the birth of Jesus when there was “no room in the inn” for Mary and Joseph. On a recent trip to Iran I visited a Caravanserai which defiantly wasn’t the oldest hotel in the world but it is almost certainly a forerunner of today’s motel. For hundreds of years travellers, merchants and pilgrims stayed in inns called caravanserai, which were built along the roadside or on the outskirts of the...
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