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New Hotel of Habaguanex, Palacio de Marqués de San Felipe y Santiago de Bejucal
The busy Plaza de San Francisco de Asis, Havana Vieja, will host the opening of Hotel Palacio Marqués de San Felipe y Santiago de Bejucal next November. Located on Calle de los Oficios, # 152 esq. Amargura, this new hotel will operate with 20 double rooms, four doubles and three suites with Jacuzzi, wireless Internet and DVD system. As pointed out in digital site of Habaguanex SA, a company that brings together the tourism facilities in the City's Historic Center, the building will also have a cafeteria, shop, viewing terrace, travel desk, a multifunctional room for meetings, banquets and receptions. Another attraction of the former property of Don Sebastian de Peñalver late seventeenth century, and successors of the fourth Marquis of San Felipe and Santiago, in the early next century, is the privileged urban environment, formed by La Lonja del Comercio, Carmen Montilla Galleries, El Café del Oriente and Chocolate museums and Cuban Contemporary Ceramics. Also surrounding is the Convento de San Francisco de AsÃs, with one of the best concert halls dedicated to choral and chamber music in the city. Created on January 6, 1994, the tour group currently consists of more than 300 facilities, restaurants, shops, markets, cafes and 16 hotels and hostels, which exceed the 560 rooms in total. Habaguanex is responsible for the development of tourism in the area, its main objective is to raise the revenue needed for work's restoration to improve the living conditions of the inhabitants of the oldest part of Havana, and provide new jobs. |