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Copyright: Rafael Perez (rafelito)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2005-10-15 |
| Categories: Architecture |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2006-08-08 3:20 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
The Mansion Xanadú, since the magnate was baptizing her, though then it would be known as Du Pont, it is placed in San Bernardino's crag and it was designed by the architects Covarrocas and Govantes in 1927, year in which the North American millionaire was arriving at his 49 years and had decided to to retire from the presidency of the empire (in the book Trading with the enemy: 1933-1949, the historian Charles Higham, after qualifying it of " the most impressive and powerful member of the clan ", assures that " he was obsessed by Hitler ").
They say that he began to look for a place for his rest, and, as many North Americans, he found it in Cuba. He bought then 180 hectares in Hicacos's peninsula for 90 000 weight (to the ridiculous price of four cents for square meter). The property was including eight kilometres of beaches virgins, but he chose San Bernardino's rocky hills to construct the house (to a cost of 1 300 000 dollars), actually(indeed) a mansion of four floors, eleven rooms with baths, three big terraces, seven balconies and a private wharf.
Precious wood for roofs, stairs and columns, while the floors and the baths were re-dressed with mármoles in Cuba, Italy and Spain.
Du Pont would reside in his Xanadú a few months to the year (the oral tradition in Shipyard says that only a few days and not every year), from the beginning of January. He gave the orders to construct in 1931 a field of golf of 18 holes (re-designed to nine in 1933 then that the first one was destroyed by a hurricane).
It would be in March, 1957 when Du Pont was visiting Xanadú for last time, corroborating that was not travelling to Cuba anually, then he,stopped doing it two years before the Revolution was triumphing. He expired on December 12, 1963, the same day in which Xanadú opened as the restaurant The Americas, with the first woman cosmonaut of the world, the Soviet Valentina Tereshkova, as guest of honor. |
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