Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The Retreat on Pto Pollenca

Pto Pollenca is a beautiful place.

Apparently, this was a retreat for Spanish intellectuals at the turn of the previous century. It's a giant complex built in neoclassical style, around a tower designed to defend the Bay of Pollenca from Dragut. There is even a lighthouse on premises. It was apparently sold to a businessman for 9M euro, who recently sold it for 32M. It's unused at the moment though, and is completely devoid of life. This is a huge pity, as the place has a lot of potential. I firmly believe that the government should be able to nationalize any property from people who're doing too lame a job with it. This applies to domain names for sure, land, cars, boats, and anything else, really. It's a new, more radical doctrine of eminent domain. For proper effect, someone like a TSA agent should come to your house and say "I'm sorry sir, you're doing way too lame a job with this thing you've got, so we the people have decided to repossess it." Because this place is begging to host a computer science conference.

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