If you’ve always wanted to stay in a palacio, then this incredible melange of baroque and eclecticism built by an Italian architect for a Spanish businessman in 1912 will more than suffice. The house and its five bedrooms are lavishly decorated, yet faithful to the building’s original decor, brimming with frescoes, marble, intricate stucco and twisted columns.
You could write a book about the finer details spearheaded by stately bedheads, flamboyant chandeliers, Grecian columns and decorative French furnishings. Some bathrooms even retain their original claw-footed tubs, while the roof terrace, reached by a wrought-iron spiral staircase, is one of the highest points in the city. The meticulous restoration work undertaken by the owners recently claimed second prize in a Cuba-wide competition won by the Palacio del Segundo Cabo in Havana.
