Next Friday, October 25, Campoamor Theater in Oviedo will host the award ceremony Princess of Asturias Awards 2024. The Kings Don Felipe and Mrs. Letizia accompanied by their daughters, Princess Eleanor and the Infanta Sofiawill chair the event and attend some of the events in the program that has been organized in different parts of the principality in the days prior to the awards ceremony, which this year also celebrates the tenth anniversary since the Princess of Asturias was named Honorary President of the Institution.
The majority of the winners will be present both at the gala and at the activities planned for the week, so they will arrive in Oviedo a few days before and will stay in the same place where both the members of the Royal Family and the Royal Family have always been staying. the guests of these awards: the luxury hotel The Reconquest. Nelson Mandela, Gabriel García Márquez, Pelé, Stephen Hawking, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese either Meryl Streep They have been some of the personalities who have stayed at this hotel, which currently belongs to the Eurostars group and which in 2023 celebrated 50 years of its opening.
The first stone of the building, however, was laid much earlier, in 1752since this work of the architect Pedro Antonio Menendez de Ambás was previously a hospice for orphans and a hospital for the wounded during the Civil War. Since it has been a lodging, it has also been the venue for many of the events related to the Princess of Asturias Awardsin 1980 the Covadonga Hall hosted the constitution ceremony of the Princess of Asturias Foundation so I could even say that the awards were born in this emblematic hotel. Its “Cat Courtyard”, the only one that is preserved today in its original state and is listed as Asset of Cultural Tourist Interestis the venue chosen to officially present the winners to the media.
An accommodation with art and history
As a whole, the facilities house a large number of artistic gems that would delight any museum. Among them there are also pieces from the 20th century from the Royal Tapestry Factorycanvases, sculptures and furniture of great historical value that are part of the identity of the hotel and the Asturians as a whole. As a curiosity, the hotel also has a bust of Elizabeth II in the Patio de la Reina, whose name honors the visit she made to the Royal Hospice in 1858.
Its elegant rooms, among which are the Royal Suites where the Royal Family stays when they visit Asturias, every October they host the winners of the Princess of Asturias Awards. Therefore, this month, among other illustrious personalities, the following will be staying there: Joan Manuel Serrat, Carolina Marín or Michael Ignatieff. Hotel rates start at 220 euros for the most basic stays with only accommodation, reaching up to 510 euros per night to stay in one of their Suites on a room-only basis.
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