2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
A luxurious mansion located on the shores of the Caribbean Sea and which belonged to the Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, has been transformed into a sophisticated luxury hotel.
Remodeled and named Casa Malca, the hotel was included in the list of the Best New Hotels on the Planet in 2016 by Travel + Leisure magazine. Said publication affirms that the house was ordered to be built in the 1980s by Escobar and that in 2013 it was acquired by the New York-based art dealer Lio Malca.
The house, indicates the newspaper El País, was uninhabited for more than a decade until Malca was "in love" with the place and decided to acquire it.
Born in Colombia, Malca is described by Business Insider magazine as an "art collector, gallery owner, and hotelier with properties in New York, Ibiza, and Tulum." The businessman owned also owned an impressive apartment valued at $ 6 million and which was put up for sale in 2015.
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