Have you thought about sleeping in a room where Al Capone slept, or where only some time later, has a different character, such as Santo Trafficante Mafia? Or stay in the same premises once by Josephine Baker, Imperio Argentina, and Libertad Lamarque used? ¿Lola Flores, Tongolele, Tin Tan, Perez Prado? Hugo del Carril ¿or Jorge Negrete? The painter David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Raúl Capablanca chess icon ...?
All these options are there in Seville Hotel, one of the oldest hotels inCuba. This is a part of the story of "Our Man in Havana" takes place, which is one of the most famous novels of Graham Greene, who was also a guest of this hotel. That was Georges Simenon, the creator of the famous literary character, Inspector Maigret, and Ernest Hemingway, Novel Prize for Literature. Enrico Caruso and Rubén Darío lived in this hotel on their way from Havana, as is Mary Pickford, on which the hotel paid a cocktail, which is still the symbol of theInstitution.
Thanks to the famous people that use their facilities, the Seville is a house with history. That and the already completed 100 years'of service. It was the first major luxury hotel on the island, and today, a four-star hotel, due to its comfort and the quality of their services, it is still ranked among the most popular hotel choice for a relaxing holiday in Cuba. It's beautiful architecture, contributes to his liking, which replicates the inputThe Patio de los Leones in the Alhambra in Granada, Andalucia, with arches, columns and mosaics of fullness. And its excellent location, right next to the famous Paseo del Prado and a few hundred meters from the Malecón in Havana, at the entrance to the historic city center and just steps from the famous museums and many bars and restaurants in the Cuban capital.
Hotel in the city of Seville Havana.This hotel passed through several stages since its inception. The Sevilla hotelopened in 1908. If you get an insight into the image of the main facade, you can see that the original owner of a Spanish man with the surname Gonzalez. This person, a bit later sold the hotel to an American company, then sold it to the Biltmore Company, also of the American capital. The Americans have always known how to obtain the highest profitability of a company, and having regard to the development of tourism on the island during the second decade of the last century, they soughtin developing their facilities.
They bought a building of 10 plants that were built next to the Plaza Hotel, with its facade of the Paseo del Prado. At first this building was designed to house a hospital, but it never opened because the owner had run into difficulties from the City Hall of Havana, the declaration of the area as an area of silence, a prerequisite for building a medical facility. The U.S. company then this is the construction with the existing hotel andReopening in 1924 as the Sevilla Biltmore Hotel. For this reason, even today, there are two species in the constructive side of the hotel, an attractive older style, which can be seen in the streets Trocadero, and a modern one that looks like on the Paseo del Prado.
The hotel enjoyed the tourism boom of the time, as was mentioned in a previous article by the national and international situations that support benefits Plaza Hotel like no other hotel in Havana at this time since itsOwners were also successful in the Hippodrome and the National Casino.
Cuba was a paradise for visitors interested in sport and entertainment are betting at the unveiling of his luck at gambling, but also according to the chronicles of travelers of the time, made some peculiarities of the Cuban idiosyncrasy possible, the tourism boom. Published in a book about our "tourist" attractions, "When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba" (A la hora del coctel en Cuba), in 1928, whose author, Basil Woon, made the libertinesProposals for potential travelers: "You can get everything you want to drink, try your luck at the draw and lose what you think it is reasonable in the casino. In Havana, there is no need to carry a marriage certificate if traveling as a couple, and visitors can search the provocativey beautiful Cuban Women, look, there's a compliment in Cuba and not a crime. "
In 1939, the Hotel Sevilla Amleto Battisti, a Uruguayan man of Italian origin, who became the head of one of the four families heldof the Havana mafia empire. He turned to the hotel one of the havens of gambling in Havana until 1959.
With the victory of the revolutionary movement in January of that year, Don Amleto, which controls the traffic of heroin into the United States, left his hotel on the day of triumph for refuge in the Uruguayan Embassy. He carried his luggage as several large suitcases full of money. The Sevilla hotel was then used exclusively for local tourism, until 1989, when it closed its doors fora large reconstruction reopened in 1993 with the glory that always marked, but with modern convenience.
I could histories of many famous people who stayed at the Hotel Sevilla tell, but I just want one of them refer to in this article:
The big meet Josephine Baker stayed at the Hotel Sevilla, when she arrived in Havana in 1950, with several nights in the America Theater. The baker was initially seduced by the Hotel Nacional de Cuba as an ideal venueremain. But incredibly, she was considered the flagship hotel of all Cuban hotels, it was not accepted because of the black color of their skin. In this situation, Amleto Battisti, who recognized that accompanied the worldwide fame of the star, and know that their presence in the facility would be good publicity for the hotel offered to host and serve, like a queen. The day after arrival at the Hotel Sevilla, she started her appearances in the America Theater. Despite their 54Years, they came quick and beautiful. Only ... that she danced with her clothes. Nevertheless, it is said that the lines of people who crowded outside the theater to see her, crossed lines for other shows earlier in Havana. The Sevilla was the hotel, the store did not appreciate from Havana, in situ, the immense value of a living legend in the world of art, Josephine Baker.
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