<p style="text-align: justify;">Associated Press. Sunday, January 30, 2011. HAVANA -- The carpets are worn and the rooms have a musty feel. Yet Havana's iconic Hotel Nacional, which marked its 80th birthday last December, wears its slightly shabby elegance with pride, an aging beauty a bit past its prime.The hotel has welcomed movie stars and mobsters, but today's visitors are mostly flip-flop-wearing tourists from Britain and Spain hoping to get a taste of the past at the apricot-colored monolith on Havana's seaside Malecon boulevard.
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