Hotels Trujillo Spain

Hotel Casa de Orellana. Trujillo Cáceres Spain
Excellent and exclusive location. The privacy of its surroundings, its enchantment. A unique and noble edifice, ideal for quality tourism, cultural, historical, artistic and intellectual. Discreet and residential. Casa de Orellana is the ideal location for high level board meetings, Corporate incentive days and Private parties. A short walk from the Plaza Mayor (main city square) which, surrounded by palaces, is one of the most beautiful 16th century Spanish Renaissance city "plazas."

Hotel Orellana`s House

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La Casa Natal de Francisco de Orellana, descubridor del Amazonas es el Hotel de mayor proyección histórica dentro del recinto amurallado de la Villa Medieval de Trujillo, España. La primera casa solariega bajando a la derecha las escaleras próximas a la Iglesia de Santa María la Mayor de la Asunción. En ella nació en el año 1511 Francisco de Orellana, descubridor del Río Amazonas. Capitán de la primera expedición que navegó por completo su curso fluvial. Una de las mayores gestas en la historia de los descubrimientos de la humanidad. Célebre descendiente de la vieja nobleza trujillana, participó en la epopeya americana, en la conquista, colonización y evangelización del Nuevo Mundo. Nombrado por el entonces Príncipe Felipe II, en las Capitulaciones firmadas en la Real Chancillería de Valladolid, el 13 de Febrero de 1544, Adelantado, Gobernador y Capitán General de Nueva Andalucía. Es un edificio sobrio del siglo XV. Con torre almenada y arco apuntado en la portada bajo los diez roeles del escudo de los Orellana. De hijosdalgos aposentos, conserva salones originales de la época. Y en su Biblioteca se contempla, esgrafiadas, las armas blasonadas de los Loaysa, Chaves y Orellana. La Casa ha sido pergeñada por el afamado decorador Duarte Pinto Coelho.
Hotel Casa de Orellana

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15th Century Building. Natal home of Francisco de Orellana. Discoverer of the Amazon River.

Trujillo Spain. Cradle of Conquistadors.

Trujillo Spain. Cradle of Conquistadors.

Captain Francisco de Orellana started the Amazon expedition on December 26, 1541, undertaking the first navigation of the world’s longest and mightiest river. He took fifty- seven men on board the fragile ship San Pedro, to sail the tumultuous Coca River. As the boat was not adequate, the company decided on the construction of a greater brig, the Victoria. Turning Trujillo into the "Source of the Amazonia" and the center for the discovery and conquista of America.

Hotel Casa de Orellana

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Living the Medieval Villa.


Within the walled medieval City of Trujillo, hard by the 13th century church of "Santa María La Mayor de La Asunción," stands the noble ancestral house in which was born the explorer and Discoverer of the Amazon, Francisco de Orellana. Watched over by its crenellated tower, this private historic hotel, with its arched entrance under the shield of the Orellanas, offers testimony of a city that for centuries lived the protagonism of its historical era.

Excellent and exclusive location. The privacy of its surroundings, its enchantment. A unique and noble edifice, ideal for quality tourism, cultural, historical, artistic and intellectual. Discreet and residential. Casa de Orellana is the ideal location for high level board meetings, Corporate incentive days and Private parties. A short walk from the Plaza Mayor (main city square) which, surrounded by palaces, is one of the most beautiful 16th century Spanish Renaissance city "plazas."

Trujillo, "Cradle of Conquistadors". Birthplace of the conqueror of Peru, Francisco Pizarro, and of Francisco de Orellana, discoverer of the Amazon River. It is located between the rivers Tajo and Guadiana. A short distance from Cáceres, Guadalupe, Yuste, Plasencia, Mérida and Mofragüe National Park. Halfway down the Madrid-Lisbon freeway. Its magnificent Castle dominates the town and the surrounding plains.

The House has been decorated by the internationally recognized Duarte Pinto Coelho.

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