Inside Mozambique's abandoned luxury hotel – BBC REEL
Inside Mozambique's abandoned luxury hotel – BBC REEL
The Grand Hotel in Beira, Mozambique has had an extraordinary life: opened in 1954, it was a luxury destination with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and cinema. Closed in 1963 and taken over for political purposes during the country’s war of independence, it now houses a few thousand squatters – some of whom are the third generation living…
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What a crying shame that it was not saved😢
Sad for me to see this. I was born in Beira in 1968. I'm Portuguese, and so feel the heartache of my ancestors trespasses, as well as pride of being born in beautiful Mozambique, in the most amazing continent on Earth, Africa. We left in 1972 and never returned, but i hope to visit one day.
Paradise plundered😢
The only oppresion is the destruction of civilization itself. But it does look like Detroit, so it's ok I guess.
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Lisbon, Portugal. Make progress to my beloved Mother country where I lived for 17 years.
Since we don't have museum here in Beira, That was supposed to be the Biggest Museum in Southern Africa.
Commies – friends of the pommy bbc – took over. That's the simple and plain truth.
If there are no tourists to Beira from the Old Rhodesia or now Zimbabwe, Beira cannot grow fully again. It is a bit far for South Africans to travel.
Wonder what happened
Fascinating, thank you 👍🏾 🖤
this is wonderful. I am so happy that this building hasn't gone empty. I know that it is not what it could or should be, but people are living there when they would otherwise be homeless. Thank you for doing this. I wish the people in Turkey would follow in your footsteps with their cities that look like disney castles.
It just be amazin what dem white folks did and how we ruint it.
this is what happens when you let the native folks run the country. They can't.
Soon after the British Government handed back the power every thing went into the crap hole. I seen it in Durban. CWA
Nice video.
The continent with the MOST natural resources, IN THE WORLD, has a hotel that looks like this and people living like this. Absolutely sickening. What will it take to wake this part of the world up? Disgustingly hard to digest this as reality, especially in 2022. WAKE UP AFRICANS!!!
Not a single photo of what it used to look like? The contrast would have been interesting.
Love the video but I can't hear the words over the music 😔
Cidade da Beira!! Bem reportada a história.
So sad to see this ounce beautiful hotel…
Spectacular country with near endless resources. But with totally incompetent and corrupt "leaders".
We Africans must learn to be more pragmatic
This is a true representation of what socialism and communism bring to societies. This is the best it can offer. It is designed to do precisely this, and this is exactly what it did in absolutely every single society it was exported to.
I guess ronovation costs would be monumental. But there is so much heritage in it, it's worth it. Should double as a museum.