El nido del Aguila - Atlantida - Uruguay

The city of ATLANTIDA was founded in 1911 but its population increased only since 1939 , when the Italian Natalio Michelizzi bought the total of the lands that were not yet urbanized and gradually founded the first hotels in the area. They were a time when Europe was the worst war and then both Montevideo and neighboring Buenos Aires investments were ideal for old world who wanted to flee the war.

The Eagle , as the locals call it , was originally a house , a favorite refuge of Natalio Michelizzi pioneering spa . His project was conducted by Juan Torres by artisanal means . The huge eyes are the windows of the living room , from which the open sea directly observed. It's easy to plunge into the peace of this place to contemplate the horizon through those eyes, away from the world , just listening to the murmur of the sea The solitary bird has spawned many myths and legends , some disturbing . It was said of a time that construction had been directed a A chapel. Also rumors that was for a time haunt of smugglers and hay who came to believe it was included a Nazi enclave UN A tail confusion due one Hitler had a house in the German Alps Also called Eagle's Nest.

This is an excerpt from an interview with Juan Torres who made the place by order of Natallio Michelizzi : "Mr Juan ... What is really El Aguila (the eagle)?" - I was just a fleeting impression or flashed his eyes almost blind with new life?

- "¿El Aguila ... It's nothing like what you imagine or what people think." - Replied, with the abruptness of the doctor who made the diagnosis of an incurable disease or wise, sick of hearing a thousand times the same stupid question from a student stupid.-

- "And what is it?"

- "A whim ... nothing more than a whim of a very special man ... a simple idea that was transformed into a chimera ... only that Michelizzi Natalio, who was practically the inventor of this resort, me. he asked to be built in the bottom of the garden of his house called "El Barranco" which bordered on the beach- a niche two meters by two, to place there a Madonna thought bring Buenos Aires and never came ... a niche ... a box ... a kind of chapel ... a place, as he said "for women wanting to lay flowers and light candles are removed" .-

After that Juan makes a living waters 4 to 4 meters by 4 and Natalio returning from Buenos Aires where his family was met with prompt room, he liked it and asked me to open an archway at the side and add a bedroom ... I did as requested ... I was then figured it was a good place for friends and wanted a kitchenette and a bathroom ... They are also made. When the building was soon looking a long time was silent. Then he said: - "How about, Torres, now if you make me an eagle on top?" - "One that?" I replied - "An eagle ... and covered with stones to look like feathers." And he left. In a company that had more sculpture than architecture, I built on the hipped roof a sort of wooden mold shaped like the head of an eagle, so I lined inside with stone, I unfolded the iron and I poured the concrete. I left that will set and, by removing wood there was the eagle! " At that time the expression of Juan Torres was of great happiness. He seemed to be looking at a vision that youth returned within himself and energy.-

:::I went This place several times when i was a child it´s only about 70km from the place I live. I was always curious. By the way , the fact that it is old , it is you rebuild , that is stone , which is an eagle , who could have done and how?

Today bigger and perhaps understanding all this. And with the possibility of having a machine that prints the way I say. I pay tribute to this Natalio who believed in the impossible and John the one that doit majestically . ( I also call me Juan hehe) . I did not understand very well if you have to say where would like to visit and that is the price or if the prize is a trip to this place. I would Travel to anywhere that has a similar mystique and appears as a model in this contest. Or just to visit a center of 3d printing in some place like myminifactory why not? hehe