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The Xanadu Beach Resort & Marina, also known as the Xanadu Princess Resort & Marina, was a resort and marina on the island of Grand Bahama in the Bahamas.Built in 1968, the resort was purchased by Howard Hughes in 1972 and was for several years the most celebrated resort in the Caribbean and served as a hideaway for the Hollywood jet set of the era.
Varadero is known as a tourist resort town, with more than 20 km of white sandy beaches. The first tourists visited Varadero as early as the 1870s, and for years it was considered an elite resort. In 1910 the annual rowing regatta was started; five years later the first hotel, named Varadero, which later was renamed Club Nautico, was built
Xanadu (Citizen Kane), a mansion in the 1941 film Citizen Kane; Xanadu, a 1980 film starring Olivia Newton-John Xanadu, a 2007 Broadway musical based on the film; Xanadu; Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical, a 1953 Seventh Army musical; Xanadu, a ballet by Mildred Couper; Xanadu, a virtual world in "Garage Kids", the pilot of Code Lyoko; Xanadu, a ...
Bill Gates’ megamansion, dubbed Xanadu 2.0 in reference to Citizen Kane, is exactly the opulence you would expect a billionaire to live in. The 66,000 square-foot mansion in Lake Washington has ...
The resort was to be developed by Tandy McGinnis – of Bowling Green, Kentucky – and his Xanadu Corporation, and would be built on 48.6 acres (19.7 ha) owned by Howard Downes, a resident of Coral Gables, Florida. [154] [155] [156] The Xanadu would feature a pyramid design, and was expected to cost $150 million. [156]
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[4] [5] [6] The mansion is a modern design in the Pacific lodge style, with classic features such as a private library with a dome-shaped roof and oculus. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The house features an estate-wide server system, a 60-foot (18 m) swimming pool with an underwater music system, a 2,500-square-foot (230 m 2 ) gym, and a 1,000-square-foot (93 m ...
The most popular Xanadu house was the second house, designed by architect Roy Mason. [4] Masters met Mason in 1980 at a futures conference in Toronto. Mason had worked on a similar project prior to his involvement in the creation of the Kissimmee Xanadu House — an "experimental school" on a hill in Virginia which was also a foam structure ...