Hotel Belmar
Hotel Belmar is the oldest still existing hotel in the city of Mazatlán in the Mexican state of Sinaloa . It was founded in 1896 and has been located at number 166 on Paseo Olas Altas since 1921 .
history
The founding of the Hotel Belmar goes back to the wealthy American Louis Bradbury, the main shareholder of the Compañía Minera del Tajo ; at that time the most profitable gold and silver mine near the city of Rosario , Sinaloa.
For a long time, the Hotel Belmar was the only tourist accommodation that offered a view of the Pacific . In addition, the garden area on its back offered the guests a variety of plants , perennials and exotic birds from all parts of the world.
The heyday was the 1920s to 1960s, when the hotel hosted Hollywood greats and stars such as John Wayne , Robert Mitchum , Tyrone Power , Bing Crosby , Robert Taylor and Rita Hayworth .
The Hotel Belmar regularly takes part in the local carnival events ; allegedly the world's third largest carnival after Rio and New Orleans .
At the carnival event of 1944 in the Hotel Belmar, the then governor of Sinaloa , Colonel Rodolfo T. Loaiza, was murdered by Rodolfo Valdés "El Gitano" when he was about to open the dance with the newly crowned Carnival Princess Lucila Medrano. The exact motive for the murder remained unclear and the people behind the crime could never be identified.
Web links
- Web representation of the Hotel Belmar (Spanish; accessed on February 12, 2014)
- Budget Hotels in Mazatlán: Hotel Belmar (accessed February 12, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Belmar roughly means beautiful sea
- ↑ Vis à vis: Mexico (Dorling Kindersley Verlag GmbH, Starnberg), p. 178 / ISBN 3928044133
Coordinates: 23 ° 11 ′ 48.5 " N , 106 ° 25 ′ 34.7" W.