I'll be doing a series of Olot, the once great and extravagant summer vacation house of the Marcoses. Now, it's a dilapidated place leased out by the PCGG to a resort investor. The compound has an 18-hole golf course, a useless olympic size pool, a disrepaired pelota court, a non-usable basketball court and tennis court, some barracks for the Marcoses' security men, a garden church with a wooden altar, some imported Hindu gods/goddesses, an Italian mosaic diorama by a famous Italian artist (forgot the name now) of the Stations of the Cross that are strategically placed around the compound (you've to take a long walk to finish this, I guess Imelda Marcos used a golf cart), Imelda Marcos' 14-bedroom guesthouse, Ferdinand Marcos' bedroom-turned 'clinic' during his dialysis days, Bongbong's 4-bedroom cottage, and 2 wide-open function areas for parties. And the nice beach of course.
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And how many rooms did Imelda need to keep her shoes?
Awesome palmtrees shot! I just love this kind of tropical scenery.
i have visited Olot beach and golf resort several times. i live in Canada and want to invest in the Philippines, what is the PCGG? do you know if they are they open to the idea of creating a tourist resort that preserves some of the original architecture and buildings while renewing the facilities?
do you know who the current resort investor is and how they can be contacted?
please, contact me if you can help.
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