The abandoned summer palace of Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia in Merbia, Spain/@Exploringwithjake1
The kings of Saudi Arabia are among the richest people in the world. In fact, the House of Saud - the royal family of Saudi Arabia, which consists of 15 thousand relatives (although according to estimates only 2,000 of them hold the majority of the capital) - is worth no less than 1.4 trillion dollars. This is almost 16 times the capital value of the British monarchy. The source of the wealth of the House of Saud is the oil reserves that were discovered more than 75 years ago, during the reign of the first king of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud. The royal oil company, Saudi Aramco, is valued at more than $2 trillion. If this assessment is indeed correct - Aramco is one of the most profitable oil companies in the world and has the highest market value among all public companies in the world, after dethroning Apple from first place.
In keeping with their great wealth, the kings of Saudi Arabia have always stood out for their extraordinary residences, owning numerous palaces all over the world, some of which have faded and evaporated over the years. The summer palace of King Fahd, who was the fifth queen of Saudi Arabia from 1982 until his death in 2005, is just one such.
In his lifetime Fahd was worth almost $30 billion and he owned, among other things, a vacation home worth millions in the Spanish coastal city of Marbella (or Marbia), a place that the founder of modern Saudi Arabia called "a land blessed by Allah." The billionaire often visited a palace called "The Mar-Mar" built inside Kopameleks Nada during the 1980s.
What was considered a vacation for him, became a carnival for Marbella. His palace, covered in gold and diamonds, was a copy of the White House. The house built for the purpose of summer vacations only included several large villas, swimming pools, a helipad, a private clinic and a mosque. Today, almost 20 years after his death, the palace is no longer a masterpiece, and it seems unrelated to such a rich family, which is currently worth over 1.4 trillion dollars.
According to the Daily Star, Jack Parr, an urban explorer, found King Fahd's abandoned summer home broken into and set out to take a closer look. He found a ruin that wasn't even a pale shadow of what was here before. Although there were dogs, and the king's guards present as Parr pointed out, the family no longer seemed to consider this palace as a place where they would want to spend more of their summer.
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The Abandoned Palace/Screenshot, Facebook/Exploring with Jack
The Abandoned Palace/Screenshot, Facebook/Exploring with Jack
The place was a destination where the king showed up in all his royal wealth with a fleet of jumbo jets, hosted no less than 3,000 family members (he had 13 wives), and a staff of 500 servants. The visiting friends stayed in 300 hotel rooms while a fleet of 100 shiny Mercedes cars were brought directly from Germany for them. The same house that was spotted with expensive works of art, was a bustling center of activity for the richest people in the world, has become an abandoned place with peeling paint on the walls, paintings thrown on the floor and the structure looks, according to the YouTuber, "daunting".
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The luxurious rooms, which once housed some of the world's richest people, are today covered in graffiti and dirt, with broken glass on the floor. Yellowing lawns cover the entire area, and the pool has become filled with black filth. King Fahd, who adored works of art related to water, installed a large fountain under the central stairwell. He even had his own Boeing 747. Today, only particles of this wealth can be found in what used to be the happiest summer in Marbella.
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Although he himself visited the place only four times, Marbella, a city of almost 125 thousand inhabitants at the time, had a hard time coping with his death - which is quite natural when one visit of the king and the many people who came with him brought 90 million dollars to the local economy in 2005.
According to locals, members of the royal family once left a 235,000 euro tip in a restaurant. They went around the city in their private jets and the luxury yacht (150 meters long and worth 100 million dollars) of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Oal Saud, before going shopping in the Nahda complex, sending the small town on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain into a financial frenzy.
With the death of King Fahd, Marbella held three days of mourning and even built a public garden in his memory and named a street after him. Fahd's half-brother and successor, King Abdullah, did not continue his brother's lavish lifestyle, which is perhaps why the palace, if it can still be called that, is now decaying as it is.
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