The Magdas Hotel sits in a quiet, leafy corner of Vienna. The sunny lobby is decorated with vintage bicycles and suitcases. The soundtrack is old-school R&B. Wolfram and Christiane von Pannwitz, a physician and an art restorer from Berlin, are checking in. It’s Christiane’s first time in Vienna. “It …
The new hotel in Vienna, run by refugees
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