Great Hotel
The Great Hotel of the city of Camaguey (to more than 550 kilometers of Havana), inaugurated in 1938, is one of the patrimonial and emblematic constructions of this Cuban large city, that comprises of local history, like its natural and tourist streets, churches, monuments, museums, places, parks and values. In their architecture wood works are combined with a subtle decoration. It is considered in addition, installation standard of the Division of the Islazul chain in the province and also has a location privileged when in center historical located being of the then town of the Port of the Prince, one of whom better conserve its environment adjustment and colonial architecture. In they have been stayed distinguished personalities of Literature, the art and the policy, between which they appear: the pianists Artur Rubinstein, Pole, and Claudius Arrau, Chilean, the singers Victory of Los Angeles, Spanish, and Dorothy Maynor, afronorteamericana and the violinista Jascha Heifetz, North American of Lithuanian origin. Also he was Lucky guest Luciano, famous personage of the italonorteamericana Mafia.
The Castilian historian and journalist Gerald Garci’a (1879-1956) put record of their impressions of the Great Hotel of Camaguey in 1938, in the context of an investigation on the patriotic Ignacio Agramonte and Loynaz: I lodge in comfortable the Great Hotel, located in the urban kidney. Of construction and present inauguration. The highest building of the city. From its roof I have examined the suggestive panorama of the city. From the river San Pedro they leave several affluents: by the West. In my eagerness to give to any camageyano place a page of interest, escalpelizo around this place and its owners and, indeed, I find a thread that ties with the past. It begins with a Catalan young person called Feliciano Carnesoltas, employee in the service of you flood, that dealt between the wharf of Guanaja and Port Prince.
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