Our polished marble and modern architecture allow old world comfort in a modern setting. Cuenca is a charming contrast of antique-colonial, indigenous and modern cultures. Cuenca is a mix of modern and colonial architecture. Although Hotel Presidente is a modern and plush building, it is located in the heart of Old Town amidst stately antique restored buildings and even Inca ruins. Fiestas are held commonly as they have been for hundreds of years, on the precise day and for the precise festive holiday.
Sky rockets can be heard nearly every day and somewhere, there is a fiesta.
Cuenca is a happy town, peaceful, and a photographer's dream. Recent renovative efforts of Cuenca's flagstone streets have utilized the century old flagstones once again, leveling them meticuously and adding wide sidewalks made of our own ceramic tile. The result makes the city streets of Cuena appear as paths through a garden. Marble monuments and statues marking Ecuador's colonial history dot the city for a true taste of colonial days. Ecuador has more indigenous population than most Latin American countries and the colorful dress and unchanged indigenous culture is respected and upheld.