It is the most visited civil building in the United States after White House and the private property that receives more visitors. Well known is Gracelandthe one who was Elvis Presley’s house and that has become a museum and pilgrimage place for the fans of the singer and rock and music in general.
A place that has recently been news for an alleged auction that has turned out to be a scam to the Presley family after the death of Lisa Mariedaughter of the singer, as a court has sentenced in favor of the lawsuit filed by the actress Riley Keoughgranddaughter of the artist and daughter of the deceased. Thus, the property of Graceland does not be in danger, which can continue to be visited in Memphis.
Graceland: Elvis Presley’s American dream and his resting place
He March 17, 1957Elvis Presley bought for about $ 100,000 a Creole -style colonial mansion and Georgian touches in Memphis, the city where it had grown and had been discovered. In fact, the influence of the blues that permeated the streets of the city was noticed in its style and would give it the distinctive touch.
Graceland is in the neighborhood of Whitehavenabout 20 minutes by the center of MemphisCapital of Tennessee, and in it you not only visit the interior of which it was the house and resting place of the King of Rock, but also its tomb, which is around a source, next to those of their parents and their twin brother, Aaron, dead at birth. It was in Graceland precisely that Elvis Presley died in 1977 of a cardiac arrest, but where he also spent some of his best moments, as he himself recognized several times, and where he fulfilled the American dream for his parents.
The visit to Graceland: a jungle and a collection of cars
In 1982, just five years after the death of the considered king of rock, Priscilla Presley It opened the doors of Graceland for visitors, a decision caused by the economic problems and the high cost of its maintenance. Since then, the residence is open to the public and guided visits can be made.
A guided tour by Graceland that is worth around 35 euros to more than 140, depending on the exclusivity of the tour, and in which you can go through the different rooms in which to see the character and tastes of the singer, but also its eccentricities, which make it an original and surprising place.
What is the most attracting attention to visitors is the call jungle roomand the extensive collection of cars and motor. The first place is a room decorated with carved wood furniture brought directly by the singer from Hawaii, with objects from Polynesia, leather creatures, and even by a waterfall on one of the walls, which is completed with a carpet of floor and roof. This facilitated a good acoustics in the room, because in the end it ended up becoming an improvised study room, where some songs from Elvis Presley’s last album were recorded, which baptized this stay as ‘The Lady’.
The other point that attracts attention is the motor collection that Presley accumulated in life, where more than 20 cars and motorcycles meet, highlighting several Harleya Rolls-Royce Silver clouda limousine Mercedes 600, as well as the ROSA CADILLAC of 1955 that he gave his mother, although he never took the driver’s card.
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