E CAMINO DEL PRÍNCIPE Hotel

San Juan de los Remedios, City of Legends and Traditions, the Eighth Village of Cuba, was founded in 1515 by the Spanish colonizer Vasco Porcallo de Figueroa. It is located in the northeastern end of the province of Villa Clara, in the tourist corridor Santa Clara-Cayos de Villa Clara. Remedios is a city with a wide heritage of history, culture and traditions, as well as a beautiful source of natural resources. Its Historic Center was declared a national monument in 1980 for its buildings of the XVII, XVIII, XIX and XX centuries, which make them jewels of the domestic architecture of the center of the country. The legends of Remedios are little known, but they constitute a valuable potential of the intangible heritage of the city. The city of Remedios has consolidated a broad cultural heritage with authentic manifestations of traditional popular culture.

Among its main festivities are the Fairs of San Juan that are celebrated on the day of the Patron Saint "San Juan Bautista" at the same time that it is expected, in this festivity, the staging of the capture of the Güije de la Bajada by the 7 Juanes referred to the legend remediana as well as the famous Parrandas Remedianas: Founded since 1820 and in which the inhabitants of the neighborhoods of Carmen and San Salvador face in a fraternal challenge on December 24. For such reason they have deserved the qualification of National Celebration and Prize of Community Culture 2001, with vital character, at the same time that they were declared Intangible Patrimony of the Humanity in 2018 by the UNESCO.

E CAMINO DEL PRÍNCIPE Hotel, It is installed in an eclectic-style building which dates back to 1885. It was almost entirely used for trading purposes. Only a very small part constituted the home of its original proprietor, Fructuoso Pírez, born in Asturias, banker, salesman and importer.

Within the commercial section, there was a bank office which was considered one of the strongest and most respectable of the town. The rest was a Hard-ware Store. It had a mahogany counter and a store house at the back. Its name was ¨Casa Pírez y Sobrino¨ (¨Pírez and Nephew House¨) However, the locals always called it ¨Casa Pérez¨ (¨Pérez House¨). It experienced several administration changes throughout the years but it always worked as a shopping store. In our times, it was, for many years, a state-owned industrial-product shop called ¨The Illusion¨

Prior to the celebration of the five-hundred anniversary of the foundation of the village, the Ministry of Tourism executed a ground-breaking renovation of the whole property. It became a hotel for foreign tourists inaugurated in 2015. It was named after the front street, which lead to the former road to Camagüey, being this city called, at the time, ¨Puerto del Príncipe¨ (¨The Prince´s Port¨)

The hotel counts on 26 rooms. They have air conditioning, hot water, satellite TV and Minibar. Two of them have access to the wide terrace offering a panoramic view over the central square. Guests may also enjoy food-and-beverage services and WIFI. In 2017 it was awarded the Four-Star category. *¨Camino del Príncipe¨ is the Spanish for ¨The Prince´s Road¨