xanadu

     

Coorinates: 42°21′35″N, 116°10′45″E

Trivia about xanadu

  • In a famous poem, "It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice!"
  • "Magic" & "Have You Never Been Mellow" are songs from this roller-skating musical that hit Broadway in 2007
  • In a Coleridge poem, it's home to a "stately pleasure-dome"
  • The film opens at this vast, gloomy Kane estate
  • Whether you're Coleridge or Newton-John, it's a place of great luxury
  • Coleridge place(6)
  • Bearing a close resemblance to William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon, it's Citizen Kane's mansion
  • X marks the spot where the musical inspired by this Olivia Newton-John film about a roller disco rolled onto B'way
  • This "stately pleasure-dome" was situated "where Alph, the sacred river ran"
  • In Coleridge's poem, it's where Kubla Khan had his "stately pleasure dome"