The Hearst Castle is located away from the big cities Californian, but that does not stop millions of people move every year to make this place unique in the world, but expensive for the public purse.
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Halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, more specifically next to the small town of San Simeon, is the well-known Hearst Castle, a display of wealth and power from the businessman William Randolph Hearst. This tycoon created a journalistic empire that took him to the highest monetary peaks.
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Mr. Hearst was in love with art, especially Spanish art. And thanks to the invaluable help of his friend Arthur Byne, a dealer who lived in Spain for years, they got all kinds of artistic works and decorative objects. Randolph Hearst appropriated the coffered ceiling of «La Casa del JudÃo» in Teruel, some stalls of the choir of a church, tables of altarpieces of hermitages, more coffered ceilings... with which he decorated his property which he called "Rancho en San Simeon" or "The Enchanted Hill" due to its location on top of a hill facing the sea.
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The "castle" has nothing of a fortress. It is a mansion ordered to be built by this press magnate back in 1919. It was on this date that he hired Julian Morgan, the first architect in San Francisco to carry out this great work. The project lasted from 1919 to 1947 although it was not completely concluded.
Hearst Castle is now a California state park, allowing visitors to visit for more than 50 years.
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As a curiosity to say that WR Hearst was such a well-known tycoon that the film Citizen Kane by Orson Welles is based on him. Although it seemed to me that I was walking through the Great Gatsby's mansion and gardens.