Man it's beautiful! We made it... I can't believe if we finally made it.
Alright a little crash course in the history of this place as we walk on the outside.
It was owned by a guy named Negro Durazo. Negro means black, and it
was his nickname because he was extremely corrupt.
He was working together with one of the presidents who was also known to be
corrupt, and when the president switched he got thrown in jail for almost a decade
He used taxpayers money to pay for
things like this... which is generally pretty illegal, and so he spent ten years
in jail for that. This property went to ruin. It was built in 1979, then it was
abandoned in 1984, so it was only really active as a his party house basically on the coast for about 5 years.
So it's been abandoned for over 30, and Cody and I are pretty excited to finally be here.
- It's been a long time coming - Yeah man, and it was worth the wait. This place is amazing.
- These statues are amazing right? - I think it's my favorite part of this place
One two three four five some missing heads but they're actually real carved stone...
because remember when he went to the Acropolis in Mexico City?
- Ah yeah it was all like styrofoam? and it was all styrofoam statues...
This... This is not Rock
This is styrofoam... or asbestos I don't know which one yet...
- Styrofoam it's not rock... So we're stepping on these styrofoam pillars... Great...
It's probably hard to show on camera, but the size of these gates is enormous.
I don't know why you would need gates this size other than to prove a point... or to actually keep out a horde of enemies.
Hold the camera? Actually here... take a run back so I can show...
This is me. I am 2 and a half blocks... Look how tall this is!
So the location itself was inspired by the architecture you see in Greece. It's called the Partenon because
there's also Parthenon in Athens, in the Acropolis there.
So when he built this place he decided to build it inspired by the actual Parthenon hence
the name of the location.
Wow, as we walk through the main entrance it's all pretty much open-air it looks
directly out into the Pacific Ocean. This is old Zihuatanejo here it's a very
beautiful part of town. The sun sets right down the middle so it's basically all open-air.
This was his summer home so,
he'd come here to enjoy the beautiful weather and the Sun. All these pillars hold up a giant beautiful roof.
There's a second floor actually that I think has bedrooms?
But if you look... this is where there was dinner parties. There's the original table
a little bit crack, but beautiful green marble.
The ocean air would just sweep in through the pillars.
People here would be dancing, having fun, maybe playing music and enjoying themselves.
This is all original, nothing's been restored.
I'm assuming this is the fountain originally. Right yeah?
It looks like water would come out of the top. How beautiful would that be though...
You're here, you're having dinner at the table over there fountain going people playing music,
ocean air like this... - it's a perfect vacation home. - I think so!
So, for Negro Durazo's big dinner parties, this is where the food was made. They would whisk
it out on a tray. The people would be enjoying themselves here at the table, and watching the sunset.
You can see in the roof...
I'm assuming these are where the chandeliers were hanging in the past but things like that
wouldn't withstand the time, and the wind and the weather as well as the stone would.
These are the only stairs... - The only stairs... super weird. - Have you been up to the second floor yet?
- No let's go - Me neither.
I was waiting for you actually
See... interestingly enough, there's a lot of beautifully sculpted stone.
Like the pillars out there... and the statues... and there is stuff like this which
I think was done as a design choice, because these are chisel marks right?
Look at this. This isn't natural. It's natural it's in the fact that
it's not painted, but it looks like they they did that on purpose to make it look
like it's older than it actually was and this is over the entire building...
this kind of like patina we would call it. The way the wear and tear looks all
cracked and destroyed, but it's actually made that way to look like it's old.
But then you have stuff like this. These kind of unnecessary designs. This is really
beautiful and not really necessary for any reason other than just making it look nice
All these these carved ropes in the way up
Alright so second floor... There's mirrors on the ceilings?
There's only generally one reason why you have mirrors on the ceilings...
Wow actually I'm really impressed with how how well this this has lasted,
this is all wood right? Carved wood. Wooden closets... still some cabinets... still look
the mirrors are still intact. You know how rare it is to go to abandoned places
with still with no graffiti and still having a lot of glass?
Look at this amazing entrance to the bathroom. Oh! I heard a bat... yeah. Look at this! I didn't even see this when I walked in.
Yeah this looking so good for being abandoned for so long
I walked in this room and I heard "Squeak Squeak"
Oh! Hear it? Probably up in the light socket.
A cute little one?
- Yeah a cute little one - Let's keep it as a puppet! - Haha a pet
*Scream* *Laughing*
Is he still cute?
Yes
- Centauro - He is right? He's half horse.
I wonder if this is his depiction of himself
I wonder if this is Negro Durazo and he had himself painted as a horse.
- It's the motor there right? And the beam. It probably wrapped up there... - Oh, you're right!
Jordan was looking up inside these little fixtures there's a pole, and you
can see the gears and the chain. That's totally what it was though. If you look
inside there's the beam, there's the gears and they were for sun
shades to protect from the setting sun.
It's a pretty simple property though, right? So there's the upstairs which we're assuming is these beautiful bedrooms, there's only 4.
Only one staircase and in this giant open area,
which was for parties. The pool. I mean it's a party home really, what more do you need?
I like it. I like it alot.
- It's a mansion but it's not super complicated. - No, there's no way you get lost.
It's very open concept
Except for this weird shrine thing here, over to the right...
Yeah I still have yet to figure out what that is.
Actually, I think going behind it...
There's two staircases down? There's no bathroom's I've seen.
(from afar) It's a discotheque. That's where the DJ was?
Yes because in the 80s and 70s, people used to dance on dance floors with lights...
so it's a discotheque. You can see in the roof... Let's go. Let's go explore.
It should be exploring with Mariannela, she's been all through this place and meanwhile we've been talking to cameras.
So when you look out here what do you think? What do you see? What do you think of this place?
My empire!
Imagine a party here...
Imagine a party here! Let's see if we can rent it.
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- Oh! A frog! - A Frog? - Or something...
There is fish in there, there is fish!
- Do you see them? - I can see them
From out here you can see it is truly inspired by the Greeks.
It really looks like the Parthenon out here.
So why do you think this is the dance floor?
Oh yeah, you can see lights. You can definitely see there were light fixtures.
The dancefloor here, which should be with the crystals, you know the squares? They light up.
because it was the 80s right? The 70s, 80s...
You think this is where the DJ was? Or the bartenders?
So there's all these holes that were...
the plumbing for the swimming pool. One, two, there's a hot tub here.
- Do you want to go down? - Can you go down?
You could but it's just water
Can you film?
Mike Corey... Dirty Jobs.
He's going into the sewer system
Ok... There might be bats, there might be bees... Probably no snakes.
Maybe the Chupacapbra
- Give me the lens?
- I hope the Chupacabra is down there... - Don't say that!
I will go down and report back! How's my butt look... good? Okay.
- The Chupacabra is down there - There's no Chupacabra!
It smells so bad
It's Mike reporting in from the very echoey sub pump for the pool
it is very dark
There is very black water below me, and there's not really much else to see to tell you the truth.
- Close him in! - Don't close the door!
I don't want to die down here
It's just deep dark water
Do you want to feel Batman?
Oh I didn't even see this!
Do you want to see, ah feel, um, Batman?
Do I want to Feelsbadman?
Do you want to feel like Batman?
Do I want to feel like Batman? Why?
Go there...
Go explore
Okay let me take off my circular polarizer. Night mode. hold on.
Let me take this off. Why guys? Who's been down there already? You? You?
Why? Is it really that scary? little bit freaked out by you don't make the merio music not
the scariest of all music wow this is this is horror movie stuffed in here
guys
no don't joke about the curse too soon guys too soon
whoa so this is below I didn't even know there was a a basement level to the
Parthenon
I hear the bats I don't see the bat and I this was probably for storage you're
gonna see a bunch of earth and there's a hole going down even deeper that's the
thing right we can only come and we can only speculate because the owner is now
passed away this place has been forgotten about for a long time now you
have this basement filled bats oh man one two three four five six seven over
twenty in the corner and this giant hole dug in the very middle why oh man it's
like a tunnel man you come to places like this and you feel the heaviness of
the history the heaviness of the air from the humidity the squeak of bats
you really feel like you're traveling really feel like you're exploring you
might not know every little detail about the place there might not be all the
information online half it we don't even know if it's true I think all of us
urbex exploring type people get that same feeling that the old explorers must
have had which is a taste of adventure when you don't exactly know what you're
getting yourself into this day and age it's hard to explore something it hasn't
been explored before but through abandoned you can have something have a
taste of it at least
all right sweets left the basement and that doorway passageway leads us back up
to where the pool is sounds getting a little bit low
the shots gonna be beautiful I put down the vlogging camera get something nice
all right I've got a question would you party in the Parthenon tenango door ah
so this particular abandoned spot lived up to all of the hype of being Mexico's
top spot to see as far as abandoned goes Ixtapa in Zihuatanejo those cities on
the coast where the mansion is are both beautiful places we spent about a week
there exploring around the city and you see that video as well cos there's some
pretty interesting things to see there that are nowhere else
Cody and I were super excited to finally get to this location we tried last time
but we couldn't actually make it Jordan and Marianela joined us both Cody and
Marianela have channels the links for those are below and let me know your
thoughts on this abandoned place it was super cool to share with you guys this
unfortunately will be my last piece of Mexico content just for a little while
guys just for a little while I know I've got a lot of Mexican subscribers and I
will be coming back Mexico has my heart I will return but for now I'm gonna be
flirting with the Philippines and Southeast Asia just for a little bit I
promise and coming back experiences or possessions kick the grind I'll catch
you guys in the next video peace