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The Hotel Ambos Mundos ((:oˈtel ˈambos ˈmundos), ''Both Worlds Hotel'') is a hotel of square form with five floors, built with an eclectic set of characteristics of 20th-century style architecture. It was built in 1924 on a site that previously had been occupied by an old family house on the corner of ''Calle Obispo'' and ''Mercaderes'' (Bishop and Merchants Streets) in La Habana Vieja (Old Havana), Cuba. It is a frequent tourist destination because it was home to the popular writer Ernest Hemingway for seven years in the 1930s.〔Office of the Historian of the City of Havana. “Ernest Hemingway” (in Spanish). Retrieved November 22, 2009.〕 ==History== From colonial times the zone of Old Havana in which the building is now sited was populated by a diverse collection of family houses. At the beginning of the 20th century the Spanish retailer Antolín Blanco Arias bought a family house on the site, from his office colleague Manuel Llerandi y Tomé. The new owner demolished the very old house to construct the hotel, the work being in charge of the architect Luis Wise Hernandez.〔Program of b c d Havana Radio. “Hotel Both Worlds: Street Bishop no. 153 corner to Merchants” (in Spanish). Retrieved November 22, 2009. Obtained from :es:Hotel Ambos Mundos (La Habana)〕 This hotel since has gained international note from its most famous long-time tenant: in 1932 a room on the upper (5th) floor became the “first home” in Cuba of writer Ernest Hemingway, who enjoyed the views of Old Havana, and the harbor sea in which he fished frequently in his yacht ''Pilar''. Hemingway rented the room for $1.50 per night ($1.75 for double occupancy) until mid-1939, when he transferred his winter residence from Key West (a U.S. island 90 miles from Cuba) to a house in the hills near Havana, Finca Vigia, which he shared with Martha Gellhorn (they were married in 1940). Hemingway began his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, a novel of the Spanish Civil War which he had witnessed over the previous several years, in the room in the Ambos Mundos, on March 1, 1939. Today, his hotel room, No. 511, is presented as if the author might have left it, and is a small museum in the middle of the establishment, with tours given regularly in the daytime. The corner of the ground floor hotel lobby also has two walls of framed photographs dedicated to Hemingway.〔Program of b c d Havana Radio. “Hotel Both Worlds: Street Bishop no. 153 corner to Merchants” (in Spanish). Retrieved November 22, 2009. Obtained from :es:Hotel Ambos Mundos (La Habana).〕 In 1987, the hotel underwent some small restoration, with more complete work finalized in 1997 to turn it once again into a luxurious hotel reminiscent of its time. Between 2004–2005, further maintenance as carried out, cleaning and painting the Hotel's facades.〔Program of b c d Havana Radio. “Hotel Both Worlds: Street Bishop no. 153 corner to Merchants” (in Spanish). Retrieved November 22, 2009. Obtained from “:es:Hotel Ambos Mundos (La Habana)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hotel Ambos Mundos (Havana)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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