Hotel House
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Hotel House is an apartment building in Porto Recanati, Italy, about 25 km from the regional capital Ancona. The building houses around 2,000 people (roughly 20% of the town's population) in 480 units.
The building is diverse and swells significantly in size during the summer months; 90% of inhabitants are foreign, representing 40 different nationalities. 21.9% of Porto Recanati's population is foreign-born, the highest percentage in the region of Marche and among the highest in Italy.
The building has a gritty reputation and is notorious locally as a magnet for crime and narcotics. In April 2018, police discovered human remains in a well near Hotel House during a drug investigation. The remains were found to belong to a teenager who disappeared in 2010; forensic evidence led authorities to her alleged boyfriend, a foreign-born Hotel House resident, but despite an investigation no charges were laid and the suspect's whereabouts are now unknown.
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