Casa Casuarina, Gianni Versace's private villa home turned exclusive hotel is sooooo over the top, ostentatious, and glamourous that it almost doesn't belong in the the US. It seems like an European hedonistic fantasy palace and appropriately so given its flamboyant previous owner.Here is a little history on it fromt he hotel website....."Casa Casuarina was built in 1930 by architect, philanthropist, author and political reformer Alden Freeman as an homage to the oldest existing house in the western hemisphere, the "Alcazar de Colon" in Santo Domingo. The Alcazar was home to Christopher Columbus' son Diego in 1510. Freeman chose to use it as inspiration because of his life-long veneration of Christopher Columbus. Indeed, one of the Casa's cornerstones contains original brick from the "Alcazar de Colon". A three story structure with a Spanish style inner courtyard, the Casa contained 22 apartments."
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