{"id":2094,"date":"2025-02-24T13:34:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=2094"},"modified":"2025-02-24T17:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:33:50","slug":"granhotel-de-la-cuidad-mexico","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/produit\/granhotel-de-la-cuidad-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"GranHotel de la Cuidad Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mw-heading mw-heading2\">\n<h2 id=\"Gran_Hotel_Ciudad_de_M\u00e9xico\">Gran Hotel Ciudad de M\u00e9xico<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<h6 class=\"mw-default-size\"><strong>The Gran Hotel Ciudad de M\u00e9xico Art Nouveau interior, built in 1918 by\u00a0<a title=\"Jacques Gr\u00fcber\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques_Gr%C3%BCber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacques Gr\u00fcber<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n<figure class=\"mw-default-size\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><figcaption>The Gran Hotel occupies the extreme southern end of this sElevator and floors with balconies inside the hotel.ide, and while it appears to be the same building as that which contains the Hotel Majestic, in reality it is separate. This building came into being as the \u00ab\u00a0Mercantile Center\u00a0\u00bb in 1899,<sup id=\"cite_ref-historic_4-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>built for Jos\u00e9 de Teresa, a merchant and ambassador of Mexico to Austria.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><sup id=\"cite_ref-folklorico_13-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>At the end of the 19th century, Mexico made strides to modernize; one way of doing this was by introducing new building techniques.<sup id=\"cite_ref-official_7-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0It was the first building built using the \u00ab\u00a0Chicago\u00a0\u00bb technique, using iron and concrete and was home to one of the first department stores in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p><sup id=\"cite_ref-GranH_14-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Its entrance and fa\u00e7ade is located on 16 de Septiembre and not the Z\u00f3calo. For that reason, its fa\u00e7ade is the original\u00a0<a title=\"Neoclassical architecture\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neoclassical_architecture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neoclassical<\/a>\u00a0and not the neocolonial mandated by the government to unify the appearance of the Z\u00f3calo. Only the side of the building facing the Z\u00f3calo itself has been redone in this fashion.<\/p>\n<p><sup id=\"cite_ref-mexmax_2-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-official_7-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>The interior of the hotel maintains most of the original decor created for when it was a department store. It is decorated lavishly in the\u00a0<a title=\"Art Nouveau\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Art_Nouveau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Nouveau<\/a>\u00a0style.<\/p>\n<p>It had an undulating and enveloping stairway, which was a replica of the one from the Au Bon March\u00e9 store in Paris, but it was lost in 1966.<\/p>\n<p><sup id=\"cite_ref-official_7-4\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>However, the cage-like elevators and the stained-glass ceiling designed by French artisan\u00a0<a title=\"Jacques Gr\u00fcber\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques_Gr%C3%BCber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacques Gr\u00fcber<\/a>\u00a0are all originals.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern of the glass ceiling is meant to evoke the railroad, at that time the symbol of modernity. At the center of the domed glass are three medallions<\/p>\n<p>The building was converted to a hotel in 1968 to accommodate crowds attending the\u00a0<a title=\"1968 Summer Olympics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1968_Summer_Olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1968 Summer Olympi <\/a>It has been featured in multiple films, including the James Bond films\u00a0<i><a title=\"Licence to Kill\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Licence_to_Kill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Licence to Kill<\/a><\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i><a title=\"Spectre (2015 film)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spectre_(2015_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spectre<\/a><\/i>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a title=\"Palme d&#039;Or\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palme_d%27Or\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Palme d&rsquo;Or<\/a>-winning political drama\u00a0<i><a title=\"Missing (1982 film)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Missing_(1982_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Missing<\/a><\/i>, in which it doubles for the Hotel Carrera in\u00a0<a title=\"Santiago\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santiago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santiago<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gran Hotel Ciudad de M\u00e9xico The Gran Hotel Ciudad de M\u00e9xico Art Nouveau interior, built in 1918 by\u00a0Jacques Gr\u00fcber The Gran Hotel occupies the extreme southern end of this sElevator and floors with balconies inside the hotel.ide, and while it appears to be the same building as that which contains the Hotel Majestic, in reality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[19],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2094","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-non-classe","first","instock","sale","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}