Hotel Nacional de Cuba
The Hotel Nacional de Cuba is a hotel in Havana , Cuba that opened in 1930 . The eight-story building is located in the Vedado district .
history
The hotel stands a little higher on Taganana Hill in the Vedado district. The Batería de Santa Clara gun complex stood there during the Spanish colonial rule of the island . It served to repel attacks on the bay.
The Hotel Nacional de Cuba opened in December 1930. The building was designed by the US architects McKim, Mead, and White . The hotel quickly became known for its exposed location and the view of the Malecón and Havana Bay. Even at the opening, the Nacional met with great approval - both from the Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado and from America's “ high society ”. In Nacional lodged celebrities like Buster Keaton , Johnny Weissmuller , Tyrone Power , Errol Flynn , Marlene Dietrich , Yuri Gagarin , Rocky Marciano and Ernest Hemingway .
In December 1946, the American Cosa Nostra held a congress in the Nacional which became known as the " Havana Conference ". In the 1950s, Meyer Lansky set up one of America's most successful casinos in the hotel with the approval and support of President Fulgencio Batista . As a result of the Cuban Revolution , the casino was closed in the 1960s.
The building of the Nacional was declared a cultural monument of Cuba in 1988. In 1992 the hotel was completely renovated and is currently in operation.
Web links
- Hotel website (English, Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Batería de Santa Clara. In: EcuRed (Spanish).
- ↑ Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Havana: Where America's Underworld went in and out - CONBOOK magazine . In: CONBOOK magazine . August 31, 2015 ( conbook-verlag.de [accessed August 11, 2017]). Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Havana: Where America's underworld went in and out - CONBOOK Magazine ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hotel and national sanctuary . ( merian.de [accessed on August 11, 2017]).
