E REAL 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 REAL Hotel, It was built in the first half of the nineteenth century. The earliest news registered about this building were found in a local newspaper dated in 1838. At the time, this was the local Royal Tax payment office. During the twentieth century the building was used with several purposes from of which, the most widely known was that of the Bilbao Private Academy.

From the early nineteen eighties the upper floor was closed because of the unsafety caused by its deterioration. In 2014, as part of the preparation of the city to celebrate its first 500 years, a groundbreaking process of recuperation of the building was initiated. As a result, it became an eight-room hotel with air conditioning, hot water, minibar, satellite tv and WIFI service.

Food and beverage services are offered in the ground-floor facilities. A wide terrace was added on top with its own bar providing the opportunity of enjoying a panoramic view over the whole central area of the city. One of this hotel´s most peculiar attractions is its proximity to the church devoted to Our Lady of the Good Voyage. Since it was opened, in 2016, it operates under the E Hotel brand. In 2018 it was officially awarded the four-star-hotel category.