Trujillo Medieval

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 House

Trujillo Spain. Cradle of Conquistadors.

With the patronage of the Count de Villapún, the collaboration of the Duarte Pinto Coelho Foundation and of Trujillo's City Council, The Orellana Year is structured to recover his forgotten identity. The natal house of the discoverer will have the role of giving back to Trujillo the vitality of an important part of its historical, artistic and cultural patrimony. It will be a center for investigation, study, and making known the feat of the discovery and navigation of the Amazon River, and the historical character of that most forgotten of heroes: Francisco de Orellana.

Collaborating with educational and research institutions, and fundamentally with the Xavier de Salas Foundation, Center for Cultural Interchange and the Promotion of Cooperation between Extremadura and America. Additionally, the intention to publish works that will encourage documentary and biographical studies of the episode.

A great scenario where crucial aspects like the climate change, the environmental degradation, the deforestation of the greatest ecological reserve of the planet, the biodiversity, and the relevance of the indigenous cultures of the Amazon are approached.

Trujillo Spain. Cradle of Conquistadors.

Orellana´s House

The House is set in the old city peaceful ambience, inside the wall-enclosed heart of Trujillo. It offers the perfect location from which to explore the many historic and cultural attractions, and the city's most representative adjacent buildings: the Santa María La Mayor church, the Chaves-Mendoza palace, the Altamirano fortress, the San Andres gate, the Alberca, the Coria, Gargüera Street, the Bejarano fortress, the Escobar fortress house, the manor houses of the Chaves-Calderon-Carvajal, Rol-Zarate y Zuñiga and Alvarado, the Plaza de los Naranjos, the Santiago gate and church, the Almirante tower and the Pizarro House museum. All unmistakable symbols of Trujillo's medieval past. Steeped in History, a privileged situation, within easy reach of Plaza Mayor (main city center), where the bronze statue of Francisco Pizarro is found, a universal work of the North American sculptor Charles Rumsey.
Trujillo

Trujillo Medieval

LIVING THE MEDIEVAL OLD CITY

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.
LIVING THE MEDIEVAL OLD CITY

Trujillo Medieval

La Casa Natal de Francisco de Orellana, descubridor del Amazonas es la Casa 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.

En el año 2011 se conmemora en Trujillo el V Centenario del nacimiento de Francisco de Orellana: Un gran escenario donde se aborden aspectos cruciales como el cambio climático, la degradación del medio ambiente, la deforestación de la mayor reserva ecológica del planeta, la biodiversidad, y la relevancia de las culturas indígenas del Amazonas. Colaborando con instancias formativas e investigadoras impulsando la edición de publicaciones que sirvan para fomentar el carácter histórico, documental y biográfico del episodio.
Casa de Orellana