{"id":346863,"date":"2025-12-14T05:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346863\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T05:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:34:09","slug":"falaknuma-palace-back-in-spotlight-as-lionel-messi-checks-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346863\/","title":{"rendered":"Falaknuma Palace Back in Spotlight as Lionel Messi Checks In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/messi-ari1765660316.jpg\" align=\"absmiddle\" alt=\"Falaknuma Palace Back in Spotlight as Messi Checks In\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The historic Falaknuma Palace was once again the centre of attention on Friday as global football legend Lionel Messi checked in with his team, including star striker Luis Su\u00e1rez.<\/p>\n<p>Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited the palace\u2014now a luxury hotel\u2014to meet Messi before heading to the evening event at Uppal Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Messi arrived with his personal chef, although the palace had prepared an elaborate spread of its signature Hyderabadi delicacies for the superstar and his entourage.<\/p>\n<p>Messi and his team are expected to stay overnight in the palace\u2019s opulent suites.<\/p>\n<p>There was also anticipation that Messi might dine at the iconic 101-seater dining table, a treasured feature of the palace, famously used in the past by dignitaries including Ivanka Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, several high-profile guests reportedly lined up at the palace for exclusive meet-and-greet sessions with the football legend\u2014each costing a minimum of \u20b910 lakh per interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Falaknuma Palace, known for hosting royalty, world leaders, and international celebrities, added yet another glittering chapter to its legacy with Messi\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The historic Falaknuma Palace was once again the centre of attention on Friday as global football legend Lionel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,191669,40422,32242],"class_list":["post-346863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-falaknuma-palace","tag-hyderabad","tag-messi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}