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On March 29, 1985 Araguaney Hotel was inaugurated with a presentation and a busy dinner buffet. After a career of 26 years as one of the best hotels in the capital of Galicia, the Araguaney has the experience and the category of what is, a real 5 stars.
The beginnings of the hotel were marked by the enthusiasm and the youth of its employees. Many of them have been working on it since the day of his inauguration. The friendly and excellent service staff is one of the most prominent features for hotel guests, something that gives it a unique personality. Needless to say, its location, the decor and the perfect combination between art and cuisine, all aspects that characterize it.
Araguaney Gran Hotel opened its doors offering clients 51 rooms. It currently has 81. During the 26 years of operation, the hotel has adapted to changing times, renovating rooms, lounges and restaurant Caney, of great fame among tourists from Compostela and Santiago and certainly the best gastronomy of Galicia. currently, the classic environment is prevailed in most of the rooms, which stand out for its spaciousness. Classic touches combined with those cutting edge can be perceived in the rooms of Araguaney.
The most important quality that makes the hotel unique Araguaney is the presence of art in every room. Paintings and sculptures by artists such as Quintana Martelo, author of the mural depicting the Jaber family-Schnackig (owner of the hotel) and decorating the hall, Felipe Criado, Anton Manzano Acisclo Patiño or decorate the Araguaney and convert it into a work of art.
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The name of the establishment is strongly linked to the history of the family of its founder, the Palestinian who lives in Compostela Ghaleb Jaber Ibrahim. On the one hand, the araguaney is a typical tree of Venezuela, the native country of his wife and, secondly, the origin of the term comes from the Arabic 'aryuani', which defines a vivid yellow.
TREE
Araguaney has been declared as the emblematic tree of Venezuela. The name is of indigenous origin (Caribbean) and described several species of Tabebuia, which is the species chrisantha emblem.
It is a medium sized tree whose trunk can grow straight or crooked, dry conditions in forests, along the edges of savannas, arid valleys and hills, to heights of 1,200 meters. It is distinguished by a mass flowering, which occurs after flashing drop their leaves by drought.
It is a hardwood tree, compact, specific gravity between 1.25 and 1.50. It is among the toughest in the American tropics, because if it goes overboard a bit, it sinks like a rock. It has been used for fence posts and rails and sleepers for the railways. Its flowering is massive and lasts several days.
THE COLOR
At 5 or 6 years of existence of Araguaney, visited the hotel the Archbishop of Jerusalem Hilary Capucci. He said the Arab origin of the name of the hotel poems recalling the twelfth and thirteenth centuries where poets extolled the color Araguaney 'aryuani' of the house of his lover, or her dress, a very lively and beautiful yellow. Without trying, had created a link between the different peoples through a word that embodied the love, beauty and passion. Same values ​​that govern the hospitality at this today.