History of the Hotel

Crossed the cover of Santo Domingo, through a hallway with a seventeenth-century tile plinth in which the shields of Dominicans and Franciscans and Genoese marble flooring in checkerboard are repeated, are the accesses to the cloister and the chapel of the Venerable Third Order built in the first half of the eighteenth century, whose design is due to Juan Martín de León.

The interior portal of the chapel of the Venerable Third Order offers a lintelled hole that closes with an interesting wooden door carved in noble woods of the first half of the siglo XVIII and is framed by molded drumstick of mixtilinear profile crowned by moved fragments of curved pediment. Flanking the cover are two small altars, ornamented with plasterwork, which house images of the Infant Jesus and la Virgen del Rosario.

Inside, the only nave of this chapel, rectangular, is subdivided into five sections by molded sashes that rest on pilasters with Corinthian counterpilasters. Each of the sections of the vault, with a very low profile, is decorated with plasterwork that draws starry shapes resembling Gothic ribs. Also decorated with plasterwork, denticles and eggs, the cornice that runs around the perimeter of the space is presented as an impost line from which the vault starts. On this cornice are angular and moved fragments of entablature on dogs with lateral leaves.The triumphal arch of access to the presbytery presents a fleshy decoration of fruit garlands and central cartouche with the Dominican shield. At the feet, high, is the choir.

Towards 1660 The cloister, which organizes the conventual dependencies, is dated. It has three floors of decreasing height. The lower one, open, has arcades of five semicircular bays on Tuscan columns of white marble, with spandrels decorated with flat moldings superimposed. The cloister, which organizes the conventual dependencies, is dated. It has three floors of decreasing height. The lower one, open, has arcades of five semicircular bays on Tuscan columns of white marble, with spandrels decorated with flat moldings superimposed.

At the angle of the border bay to the church, the box of ladder that starts and disembarks in rectangular rooms centered by double semicircular arches that rests on a robust Tuscan marble column. The staircase, of large dimensions, is developed in two sections with central plateau. Each step constitutes a single piece of white marble.

Occupying the center of the cloister are four equal well curbs. They are made of white Italian marble and octagonal shape. On four of its fronts overlap, alternately, carvings of Dominican and Franciscan shields. Two tombstones with inscriptions are in the cloister in the vicinity of the access to the sacristy: the tombstone of Domingo Munárriz (1701) and the remembrance of the bull of redemption of souls in Purgatory (1724). In addition, the tombstones of the priest Núñez Chacón, dated in 1672, and of the Alderman Olivares,of 1701, both with heraldic shields.

In the sacristy It is interesting to highlight the area adjacent to the church, in front of which there are two lintel doors framed by mixtilinear drumsticks between which is located a white marble aguamanil on a tile background.