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WHAT WAS XANADU ?
History Revealed
1 Nov 2018
MARBLE-LOUS Marco Polo described Xanadu as having “a very fine marble palace, the rooms of which are all gilt”
Sorry Olivia Newton-John fans, this isn’t about her 1980 musical and song. Xanadu, or Shangdu, was the summer retreat of Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. Destroyed in 1369, only accounts of its grandeur remained, but that was enough to inspire poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. That, and opium.
In 1797, hundreds of lines of verse about Xanadu came to him in a drug-induced dream. When published, the poem ignited interest in the palace and made the name a touchstone for splendour and opulence. Perhaps that’s why Xanadu was chosen for the name of the obscenely palatial home of the titular character in Citizen Kane.
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