The estate of incredible beauty, the Hearst castle, is the jewel of the Central coast of California. It was built by media Mogul William Randolph Hearst who died in 1951. Three years later the estate became a Park in the state of California, and in 1958 it was opened to visitors. Despite the fact that the mansion is located away from the noisy city, with its beauty and vast collection of art objects, it attracts thousands of visitors.
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The castle is also often called «La Cuesta Encantada«means «Enchanted hill», «San Simeon» or simply «the ranch».
The most popular Hearst castle enjoyed its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s. The Hollywood and political elite often visited this amazing place, using its own airfield estates or private rail car owner. Among the guests were Hearst , Charlie Chaplin, Cary Grant, the Marx Brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. In the theatre of the estates were usually filmed their own film Studio Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Productions.
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The Hearst castle located near San Simeon, California approximately 250 miles (400 km) from Los Angeles and San Francisco in the Northern part of the County of San Luis Obispo.
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The appearance of the estate in many ways is the epitome of historic architectural styles that its owner admired in his travels around Europe. Hearst was an avid collector who is not so much buying art and Antiques to decorate your castle, how many built the house to pull out my extensive collection from the warehouse. This led to a funny paradox, for example, in the theater of the castle, the walls are hung with shelves of rare books.
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In Zemke Hurst has everything you could wish for: 56 bedrooms, 61 bathrooms, 19 sitting rooms, 127 acres of gardens, indoor and outdoor pools, tennis courts, a movie theater, airfield and the world’s largest private zoo. Julia Morgan, an experienced engineer, has developed a system of water delivery, which transportorul water from artesian wells on the slopes of pine mountain, 1,100 m, 11 km to the East of the castle. During Hearst’s private power applied electricity to the mansion. In most chandeliers estates used bare bulb, because the electricity was just beginning to develop in those years, when they built the castle.
The castle is open for visits daily from 9 o’clock in the morning. Tickets will cost you $25 (adult), $12 (children).
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