Inside Croatia's abandoned 港／避難所 of hedonism: The derelict remains of Haludovo Hotel, the once-decadent 訴える手段／行楽地 owned by a US porn baron and たびたび（訪れる）d by Saddam Hussein

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Dozens of 廃虚d and dilapidated former hotels, casinos and 明言する／公表する-owned 訴える手段／行楽地s stand along Croatia's bejewelled Adriatic coast, abandoned after the Yugoslav Wars.?

But there is one with a 特に salacious history ? the Haludovo Hotel.

支援する in the 1970s, it was a 港／避難所 of hedonism. Conceived of and bank-rolled by （頭が）ひょいと動く Guccione, one of America's most 悪名高い porn barons, hostesses in corsets called 'Penthouse Pets' swanned around, bringing guests シャンペン酒. Saddam Hussein would stay in the master 控訴.

Now it is graffiti-strewn and 破片-riddled, a building code nightmare.

But though the former palace of 'Peace and Porn' is a 悪化するing husk, many curious tourists still make a 巡礼の旅 to its remains, on the sun-drenched island of Krk, to 逮捕（する） its derelict grandeur in photographs. Haludovo is almost as fascinating a structure in decay as it was when it was a swinging hotspot.

Haludovo Hotel, on the island of Krk in Croatia, was built in the late 1960s to be a decadent 楽しみ palace for American tourists and the glitterati

Haludovo Hotel was conceived of and bankrolled by porn czar （頭が）ひょいと動く Guccione

In its hey-dey, the opulent 広い地所 had 17 tennis 法廷，裁判所s, a 小型の football pitch and 小型の-ゴルフ, 同様に as waterski, paragliding and 飛び込み centres, 多重の swimming pools and a bowling alley

In the 1960s, Guccione ? 創立者 of Penthouse Magazine, the first American 出版（物） to feature 十分な-frontal nudity ? dreamed of building a lavish 訴える手段／行楽地 in Malinska, Krk, 構成するd of 高級な hotels and a grand casino, to attract a 豊富な American clientele to the 大部分は ignored 社会主義者 Yugoslavia.

It seemed a canny 商売／仕事 決定／判定勝ち（する）: although the country had casinos for tourists, the people of Yugoslavia were banned from 賭事ing in them. その結果 casinos went 大部分は untaxed.?

Guccione hoped 豊富な American tourists would 長，率いる to Krk to 賭事 away their money at his hotel, where he could 雇う 地元のs to work without any American 雇用 規則s in play.

In a 1972 interview with 無線で通信する 解放する／自由な Europe, Guccione said he believed his 訴える手段／行楽地 would be a 'real 決まり文句／製法 in the struggle against the 冷戦' （人命などを）奪う，主張するing it would help humanise the 社会主義者 Croats in the 注目する，もくろむs of Americans and 副／悪徳行為 versa.

Guccione sunk $45million (だいたい $376m/£296m i n modern 通貨) into the 開発 of the 所有物／資産／財産 and the casino (under the 所有権 of Croat 企業 group Brodokomerc), enlisting Boris Maga?, one of the most celebrated Croatian architects of the twentieth century, to design the コンビナート／複合体. At the time the hotel was strikingly modern: now architects consider it a classic example of the brutalist style.

Designed by celebrated Croatian architect?Boris Maga?, the Haludovo Hotel is considered by architects to be a classic example of brutalist architecture

A 1972 広告 for Haludovo in Penthouse magazine 述べるd the 訴える手段／行楽地 as a 'mile-long Xanadu of glittering buildings [that] will become for international cognoscenti a 首相 playground'

The Haludovo Hotel pool in the 1970s. One story ? かもしれない apocryphal ? 持続するs that for one 特に debauched party the pool was filled with シャンペン酒

A 影をつくる／尾行する of its former glory, although it attracts curious tourists and photographers, the Haludovo is やめる a dangerous 場所／位置

It took four years to 建設する, and The Haludovo Palace Hotel and Penthouse Adriatic Club Casino opened in 1972 to 広大な／多数の／重要な ファンファーレ／誇示. A 1972 宣伝 for Haludovo in Penthouse magazine 述べるd the 訴える手段／行楽地 as a 'mile-long Xanadu of glittering buildings [that] will become for international cognoscenti a 首相 playground for summer and winter seasons alike'.

Every インチ of the コンビナート／複合体 was designed for leisure, 楽しみ, and decadence: from glittering chandeliers to poolside cocktail service and from a bowling alley to modish 'conversation 炭坑，オーケストラ席s'.?

The opulent 広い地所 had 17 tennis 法廷，裁判所s, a 小型の football pitch and 小型の-ゴルフ, 同様に as waterski, paragliding and 飛び込み centres. One story ? かもしれない apoc ryphal, but pretty to believe ? 噴出するs that one of its many pools was perpetually filled with シャンペン酒.

Above is （頭が）ひょいと動く Guccione. A friend called Haludovo one of 'a succession of colossally unwise 商売／仕事 投機・賭けるs' by Guccione

During its first year, 報告（する）／憶測s 見積（る） guests 消費するd 100kg (224lb) of lobster, 5kg (11 lb) of caviar and hundreds of 瓶／封じ込めるs of シャンペン酒 each day. Penthouse 'Pets' ? Guccione's retort to Hugh Hefner's Playboy Bunnies ? were flown in from the 明言する／公表するs and …に出席するd to guests dressed in skimpy French maid dresses. Though you may assume these ladies were 雇うd to titillate, Guccione 主張するd to one 出版（物） they were part of his 計画（する） for East-West appeasement, calling them 'the peace 軍隊s of the new world'.

In its heyday the 訴える手段／行楽地 was a 会合 poin t for 全世界の 独裁者s and 政治家，政治屋s, American 週末 gamblers, the Yugoslav music scene, and ordinary 国民s. Saddam Hussein was one of Haludovo's most 悪名高い guests.?

によれば Croatian 出版（物）?The Balkanist, on one occasion The Butcher of Baghdad 'famously left a $2,000 tip for a 特に pleasing pet'. Rumour also had it he had to 延期する his flight 支援する to Baghdad 'because his son forgot a golden ピストル beneath a pillow in his 控訴'.

What Haludovo did not do, however, is make money: in 1973 it 宣言するd 破産 予定 to its extravagant 維持費s, although it managed to stay open over the next two １０年間s (Guccione haemorrhaged money into the 所有物／資産／財産, part of what a friend called 'a succession of colossally unwise 商売／仕事 投機・賭けるs') until 1991, when Yugoslavia was 荒廃させるd by civil war.

What was once a bolthole for the glitterati became a literal 避難: families 追い出すd by the war were housed in the now out-of-service hotel throughout the war. Upset when they were 無作法に 立ち退かせるd from the 所有物／資産／財産 at the war's end, many 難民s stripped Haludovo of any item of value imaginable: 麻薬を吸うs, radiators, 巡査 wiring, and electric sockets.

Strangely beautiful: (a)手の込んだ／(v)詳述する graffiti in the entryway of the former Haludovo Hotel. Picture credit: Foodbaby

The hotel was turned into a 避難 for people who lost their homes in the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s?

In its heyday the 訴える手段／行楽地 was a 会合 point for 全世界の 独裁者s and 政治家，政治屋s, American 週末 gamblers, the Yugoslav music scene, and ordinary citi zens. Saddam Hussein was one of Haludovo's most 悪名高い guests?

The sun-drenched island of Krk. A 橋（渡しをする） connects the Adriatic 位置／汚点／見つけ出す to the 本土／大陸

In 1995 the hotel was privatised, and the 投資家 then carved the 抱擁する 広い地所 up, selling it bit by bit, piecemeal. Though parts of the hotel 再開するd to guests, it never 回復するd its former opulent patina or clientele. The last 記録，記録的な／記録するd guests visited in 2002.

Since then, it has fallen more and more into disrepair. A 影をつくる／尾行する of its former glory, although it attracts curious tourists and photographers, this 消滅した／死んだ 楽しみ palace is やめる a dangerous 場所／位置.

The Balkanist said: 'Piles of broken glass cover the 床に打ち倒す. Large chunks of the 固める／コンクリート staircase have broken off and fallen to the ground below. 床に打ち倒すs buckle. The skylights have all 粉々にするd, leaving shards of ser 率d 窓ガラス hovering 総計費.

'A long 追跡する of 血 leads up two flights of stairs to the 最高の，を越す 床に打ち倒す. And then there are the unsettling tags, probably written by high school students but still 乱すing: 'DIE HELP ME HELP ME' and Saxa loquuntur, which is Latin for "the 石／投石するs talk".'