- With him went his dream of being at the center of Cuba's gambling operations. On January 22, 1959, Fidel Castro held a press conference at the Copa Cabaret inside the hotel where he gave his response to the world with regards to the Cuban Revolution. In October of the following year he nationalized all the island's hotel-casinos and outlawed.
- En la decada del cincuenta se comienzan a gestar los primeros elementos que conformaran el casino como un nuevo estilo de baile de saln cubano.Varios factores influyeron de manera considerable en esta evolucin.de la msica popular bailable en Cuba.Entre ellos se encuentran el nuevo auge del son y de la guaracha, la invencin del chachach, la.
| Hotel NH Capri La Habana | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Calle 21 / Calle N, Vedado, Havana |
| Coordinates | 23°8′31.96″N82°22′57.35″W / 23.1422111°N 82.3825972°WCoordinates: 23°8′31.96″N82°22′57.35″W / 23.1422111°N 82.3825972°W |
| Opening | 1957 (original), 2014 (reopened) |
| Owner | Grupo Caribe |
| Management | NH Hoteles |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 19 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Jose Canaves |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 220 |
The Hotel NH Capri La Habana is a historic high rise hotel located in central Havana, Cuba.
En la decada del cincuenta se comienzan a gestar los primeros elementos que conformaran el casino como un nuevo estilo de baile de saln cubano.Varios factores influyeron de manera considerable en esta evolucin.de la msica popular bailable en Cuba.Entre ellos se encuentran el nuevo auge del son y de la guaracha, la invencin del chachach, la.
History[edit]
In 1955, President Batista enacted Hotel Law 2074, offering tax incentives, government loans and casino licenses to anyone wishing to build hotels in excess of $1,000,000 or nightclubs for $200,000 in Havana. This bill brought Meyer Lansky and his 'associates' in the mafia flooding to the city to take advantage.
The Hotel Capri de Havana was one of the first to be built. Located on Calle 21, 1 Mp. 8 Vedado, only two blocks from the Hotel Nacional, it opened in November 1957. With its 250 rooms, the nineteen-story structure was one of the largest hotel/casinos in Havana during its heyday. It boasted a swimming pool on the roof.
Owned by mobster Santo Trafficante, Jr. of Tampa, Florida, the hotel/casino was operated by Nicholas Di Costanzo, racketeer Charles Turin (aliases: Charles Tourine, Charley 'The Blade'), and Santino Masselli of the Bronx NY(aliases:'Sonny the Butcher'). After it opened, George Raft was hired to be the public front for the hotel's club during his gangster days in Cuba.[1] It was believed that he owned a considerable interest in the club.[2]
The hotel was designed by architect Jose Canaves and owned by the Canaves family. The hotel, along with its famous casino, was leased to American hotelier, 'Skip' Shephard. The Hotel Capri was nationalized by the Cuban government in October 1960, and the casino was closed.[3]
The hotel was known as the Hotel Horizontes Capri in the 1990s, before it closed in 2003. It reopened[4] in January 2014,[5] following major renovations[4] managed by the Spanish NH Hotel Group as the Hotel NH Capri La Habana.[6]
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In 2017 the hotel was one of several sites of a suspected acoustic attack against American diplomats, described as 'Havana syndrome'.[7] Reports of piercing, high-pitched noises and inexplicable ailments were investigated, but a source of the phenomenon was never definitively determined.[8]
Filmography[edit]
- The rooftop pool can be seen in the opening scene of Mikhail Kalatozov's film 'I Am Cuba'.
- The main entrance and adjoining square are visible in the Soviet spy miniseries 'TASS Is Authorized to Declare...' (episode 2, 55:05-55:43), based on a novel of the same name by Yulian Semyonov.
- In Francis Ford Coppola's movie The Godfather Part II,Fredo Corleone brings a suitcase containing $2 million to his brother Michael at the 'Hotel Capri'. The movie refers to the involvement of the American mafia in the gambling and hotel industry in Cuba during the Batista dictatorship. The film was shot in the Dominican Republic, where the Hotel El Embajador doubled for the Capri.
References[edit]
- ^Havana Before Castro by Peter Moruzzi, p.176[1]
- ^Cuban Information Archives, Document 0126[2]
- ^Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States - In the Matter of the Claim of Horwath and Horwath September 20, 1967
- ^ ab'Capri Hotel on Cubaism.com'. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
- ^Classic Cuba: Famed art-deco hotel reopens after renovation Desert Sun March 1, 2014
- ^NH Hotel Group - Hotel NH Capri La Habana nh-hotels.com[3]
- ^Hitt, Jack. 'The Real Story Behind the Havana Embassy Mystery'. Vanity Fair.
- ^Broad, William J. (1 September 2018). 'Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers'. New York Times. Retrieved 2 September 2018.