Of aggressions with fire to the city, the historians make reference to the attack of the 3 of December of 1655 on the part of the English vice-admiral William Goodson and Juan Cuchillo, a pirate and renegade Spanish, who attacked, burned and they took the city during 15 long days . Three years later the English corsair Edward Doyley and the pirate Cristóbal Mings, repeated exactly the burning, as a dejá vu that leaves almost two centuries of Samaria history in a limbo of ruin and ashes. The part of the convent of Santo Domingo, today the place where Don Pepe stands, survived in an incredible way despite the pirate attacks and the historic earthquake of 1834: On May 22 of that year at two in the morning, the telluric movement it destroyed almost the whole city, and the replica of it on the 24th finished destroying the constructions. But the house, I’m still standing. In 1837, when it was still a convent, a historical event took place that is part of the magic and culture of this house: the honorable remains of the liberator Simón Bolívar were sheltered from being thrown into the sea.

From the modern and conceptual history of the construction of the hotel, we will return to the fact that Don José Benito Vives acquired the house in 1996. Three months after the purchase he died, without knowing that the beautiful place that receives people from all over the world would be built. They are impressed by the beauty of the construction and the stories it contains.