| Hotel Sevilla Habana Affiliated by Meliá | |
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.jpg) Original 1908 wing of Hotel Sevilla | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Calle Trocadero #55, Entre Prado y Zulueta Havana,Cuba |
| Opening | March 22, 1908 |
| Management | Meliá Hotels International |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 10 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | José Troya, Antonio Rodríguez and José Rodríguez,Schultze & Weaver |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 178 |
TheHotel Sevilla Habana Affiliated by Meliá is a historic hotel inHavana,Cuba.
TheHotel Sevilla opened on March 22, 1908.[1] It was a four-storyMoorish Revival structure, designed by architects Arellano y Mendoza on, located on Calle Trocadero, next to thePaseo del Prado, between theMalecón andParque Central. The Sevilla was bought byJohn McEntee Bowman andCharles Francis Flynn in 1919 and renamed theHotel Sevilla-Biltmore. In 1924,Bowman-Biltmore Hotels constructed a huge ten-story tower wing, with a rooftop ballroom, designed by noted New York architectsSchultze & Weaver.
In 1939, the Sevilla-Biltmore was purchased by Italian-Uruguayan mobsterAmleto Battisti y Lora.[1] Its casino was closely associated with Havana'smafia network, being part-owned bySanto Trafficante, Jr. Mobs destroyed the Sevilla-Biltmore's casino on January 1, 1959, afterFulgencio Batista fled the country overnight as Fidel Castro's rebel army approached Havana. Amleto Battisti took refuge in the Uruguayan embassy.[2][3]
The Sevilla-Biltmore was featured inGraham Greene's novelOur Man in Havana as the location where the protagonist joins theBritish secret service.
Today, the hotel is owned by the Cuban state-run Gran Caribe hotel group. The FrenchAccor chain assumed management in 1996,[4] first under theirSofitel division as theHotel Sofitel Sevilla Havana,[5] and later under theirMercure Hotels division as theHotel Mercure Sevilla Havane. Accor announced plans in 2017 to renovate the Sevilla and transfer it to their boutique MGallery by Sofitel division.[6] However, Accor ceased management of the hotel on December 31, 2018.
In 2023, the hotel joined the SpanishMeliá Hotels International chain[7] asHotel Sevilla Habana Affiliated by Meliá.
The hotel is mentioned inThe Godfather Part 2, at a meeting between main mafia bosses in Havana.[8]
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