Hotel Mocambo
The Hotel Mocambo is a hotel in the port city of Veracruz overgrown City Boca del Río in the Mexican state of Veracruz . The hotel, built in the immediate vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico in the late 1930s and early 1940s, was the first hotel on Veracruz Beach for a long time. In the 1940s and 1950s in particular , it attracted Mexican celebrities.
history
In 1938 the investors Jesús Álvarez and Colonel Serrano acquired a plot of land in what was then an inhospitable area outside the gates of Veracruz, where numerous hotels are now located. There is a hill on the property which, even when undeveloped, provided a wide view of the sea. The beach between the property and the Gulf of Mexico was called "Mocambo" by black slaves after an African tribe in colonial times.
The two investors engaged the Spanish architect Martí for the hotel design, while the construction management was taken over by the architects Enrique Segarra and Félix Candela. When it opened, the hotel became a meeting point for national celebrities who traveled on special flights from Mexico City . Under the musical direction of Agustín Lara , the celebrities celebrated pompous parties and elegant dance events in the 1940s and 1950s.
One of the highly acclaimed highlights of that time was the Mexican feature film María Eugenia , which was partly shot in the hotel and its immediate vicinity and in which the actress María Félix was seen in a bathing suit for the only time in her career. The piano, which the Mexican composer Agustín Lara once played at the festivities in the ballroom, is still in the hotel lobby.
Others
Hotel Mocambo is the Italian title of Tim Whelan's film Step Lively from 1944.
Web links
- Official website of the hotel
- Historia del Hotel Mocambo (Spanish; article from May 2013)
- Infancia y Mocambo (Spanish; article of November 27, 2011)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hotel Mocambo at quierohotel.com (accessed March 26, 2019)
Coordinates: 19 ° 8 ′ 3.4 ″ N , 96 ° 6 ′ 16.1 ″ W.
