The Hotel Nacional de Cuba stands on Taganana Hill overlooking the Malecon seafront in the Vedado district of Havana, opened on 30 December 1930 to a design by the American architectural firm McKim, Mead and White. Its twin-towered facade blends Spanish, Moorish, Roman and Art Deco elements into a style often described as Spanish eclectic, intended to evoke the grand resort hotels of the era. The hotel is best known for hosting the Havana Conference of December 1946, a meeting of American organized crime figures including Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky convened to settle disputes within their criminal network, an event later dramatized in film. Nationalized after the Cuban Revolution, the hotel continues to operate today and remains one of Havana's most recognizable landmarks.
Facts
Building TypeHistoric Spanish eclectic style hotel 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Wikidata: Hotel Nacional de Cuba
Source Wikidata: Hotel Nacional de Cuba
Uses Element
Source Hotel Nacional de Cuba - Wikipedia
Source Hotel Nacional de Cuba - Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Cuba, located there.
Sources
1. Hotel Nacional de Cuba - Wikipedia
Lead section, type
The Hotel Nacional de Cuba is a historic Spanish eclectic style hotel in Havana, Cuba
Lead section, location
Located on the sea front of Vedado district, it stands on Taganana Hill
General information box, opening
Opening: December 30, 1930
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
The Hotel Nacional de Cuba stands on Taganana Hill overlooking the Malecon seafront in the Vedado district of Havana, opened on 30 December 1930 to a design by the American architectural firm McKim, Mead and White. Its twin-towered facade blends Spanish, Moorish, Roman and Art Deco elements into a style often described as Spanish eclectic, intended to evoke the grand resort hotels of the era. The hotel is best known for hosting the Havana Conference of December 1946, a meeting of American organized crime figures including Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky convened to settle disputes within their criminal network, an event later dramatized in film. Nationalized after the Cuban Revolution, the hotel continues to operate today and remains one of Havana's most recognizable landmarks.
Uses Element: Steel, Wikipedia article
The structure of the building is a steel frame, while the decorative elements including ground floor details, columns, wall facings, and much of the paving, are in coral stone.
Uses Element: Stone, Wikipedia article
The structure of the building is a steel frame, while the decorative elements including ground floor details, columns, wall facings, and much of the paving, are in coral stone.
View the Source2. Wikidata: Hotel Nacional de Cuba
- Wikidata Q2915936, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q2915936, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
In Style: Architectural Eclecticism, Wikidata P149
architectural style: eclectic architecture
In Style: Art Deco, Wikidata P149
architectural style: Art Deco
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