National
Sport, Olympic, Paralympic Museum unveils:
Gholamreza
Takhti’s Travelogue (from his personal diary)
On the
occasion of his birthday
August 28th,
1930
August 26th,
2020
Gholamreza
Takhti made not only the history but was a historian
The National Sport,
Olympic, Paralympic Museum, in commemoration of heroic values and in honor of
the World Champion, GholamrezaTakhti at the age of ninety (if he lived), unveils
an excerpt from his travelogue in 1955 which is entitled: "expenses
for the leisure trip" and is included in his scripts (according to
the documents available at Museum Treasury).
Expenses of the leisure trip
- I stopped for a few days in Abadan: 5500 Rials
- From Khoramshahr to Basra: 120 Rials
- Overnight stay with food, etc.: 50 Rials
- Train ticket from Basra to Karbala: 150 Rials
- One night in Najaf and two nights in Karbala along with food, home rental and car: 480 Rials
- From Karbala to Kazemein by train: 15 Rials
Belongs to Takhti’s
personal album
- 8 days in Kazemein along
with bed and totally? (this part is unreadable, “meantime” must be meant): 1000
Rials
- From Baghdad to Syria by
Lanous Bus (unreadable): 3 Iraqi Dinars
- 7 days accommodation in
Syria: 35 Iraqi Dinars
- From Syria to Beirut by
car: 100 Rials
- 8 nights in Beirut along
with bed: 2 Lebanese pounds and daily 120 Rials
- From Beirut with 1st
Class Greek Vessel: 574 Lebanese pounds
- 2nd Class: 428
Lebanese pounds
- 3rd Class:241
Lebanese pounds
- 4th Class: 154
Lebanese pounds
- Each Lebanese pound equals
to 47 Rials
- One-night hotel stay in
Geneva: 70 Rials
- Spending 24 hours in this
port: 140 Rials
-
Train ticket to Rome: 2900
Italian Lire equal to 5/41 Rials
- Boarding house for 15 days:
22500 Lire equal to 3150 Rials
- These expenses were
calculated without souvenirs
- Written in 05/22/1955 at
POPOLO Sq.
by Takhti
Duration
of the leisure trip
(from
personal diary)
On the 23rd
of March 1955, we arrived in Khorramshahr from Tehran by a second-class train
24 hours later. four days stay in Karbala; after that through Basra I made it
to Karbala by train. I stayed 2 nights in Karbala and one night in Najaf. We
arrived by 3rd and 4th (March) in Kazemein and stayed for
one night in Basra.
So far, I've been with the famous
hero, Givehchi.
belongs
to personal album
Nasser
Givehchi, Gholamreza Takhti and Mehdi Yaghoubi in Najaf
(paying tribute to Imam
Ali’ Shrine)
By 8th of
April Mr. Givehchi moved to Tehran and a day later I moved to Syria; I stayed
up to 8 days in Syria and then moved to Beirut.
I stayed 8 days in
Beirut and then moved to Italy by the Greek Vessel.
We spent 7 days on the
sea and on the way we visited Port Said and Alexandria and Athens.
On 03/05/1955 we
entered Geneva Port in Northern Italy, I walked around for 24 hours and turned
to move to Rome by electric train. It traveled 700 km in 8 hours.
By 4th of
May I arrived in Rome, left my luggage and searched for hotels.
I write these few
lines in this big villa across from POPOLO Sq.