Xanadu

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Xanadu (Shangdu) was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan empire.

Xanadu may also refer to:

a 1980 film:

• Xanadu (film), film starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly
  • "Xanadu" (Electric Light Orchestra and Olivia Newton-John song), a single from the film soundtrack
  • Xanadu (soundtrack), the soundtrack of the film
  • Xanadu (musical), Broadway musical based on the film

in literature:

• "Kubla Khan, or A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment", a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, set in Xanadu

in music:

• "Xanadu" (song), a song, based on Coleridge, recorded by the Canadian rock trio Rush for their album A Farewell to Kings
• Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical, 1953 Seventh Army Musical, based on Coleridge
• Xanadu Records, a jazz record label
• "The Legend of Xanadu", a song by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
• "Watching Xanadu", a song by the Mull Historical Society
• "Xanadu", a song by Japanese band Moi Dix Mois

buildings:

• Xanadu (Citizen Kane), the fictitious mansion owned by Charles Foster Kane in the film Citizen Kane, and inspired by Coleridge's "stately pleasure dome"
• Xanadu 2.0, the nickname of Bill Gates' futuristic private estate
• Xanadu Beach Resort & Marina in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas
• Xanadu House, a series of experimental homes built to showcase computers and automation in the home
• Meadowlands Xanadu, a nearly complete mall in New Jersey, expected to be the largest in the US
• Xanadu, Mandrake the Magician's fictitious home.

books:

• Exile from Xanadu, a science-fiction novel by Lan Wright

in other uses:

• Xanadu (Titan), an enigmatic bright feature on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan
• Xanadu, a mountain in the Arrigetch Peaks in Alaska
• Xanadu (colour), a colour named after the colour of the leaves of a plant that grows in Australia
• Project Xanadu, an early non-markup hypertext project
• XANADU, the aviation callsign of AirAsia X
• Xanadu, in Richard Laymon's The Beast House.
• Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu, a 1985 video game
• Faxanadu, a 1987 video game
• Madame Xanadu, a DC comics character

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