Hacienda Napoles
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Growing up outside Medellin, Colombia, |
| 0:03.8 | Gina Serena always loved going to the zoo. |
| 0:08.0 | Haseyenda Napolese. |
| 0:10.1 | We used to come to Haseyenda Napolese |
| 0:12.8 | because my dad used to have a farm near Haseyenda Napolese. |
| 0:17.6 | So when we got to the farms on weekends, |
| 0:20.9 | I always say that that let's go to the zoo. |
| 0:24.6 | I always love animals. |
| 0:26.2 | Did you laugh and yell offensive another animals? |
| 0:31.2 | Gina saw some typical stuff at the zoo. |
| 0:33.2 | Zebras, kangaroos, hippopotamuses. |
| 0:36.2 | But Haseyenda Napolese also had some less typical stuff. |
| 0:42.2 | Like concrete statues of dinosaurs, |
| 0:45.2 | a vintage car collection, |
| 0:47.2 | an airstrip, and a Mediterranean-style mansion. |
| 0:52.2 | This zoo wasn't a typical zoo. |
| 0:56.2 | This zoo belonged to drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. |
| 1:05.2 | At the peak of his power, |
| 1:07.2 | Escobar built himself a sort of Jurassic Park |
| 1:10.2 | meets Disney World Resort. |
| 1:12.2 | He called it Haseyenda Napolese. |
| 1:15.2 | He hosted parties, water-skied on man-made lakes. |
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