{"id":145,"date":"2020-08-16T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2020-10-02T19:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T19:44:12","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-a-palador-and-a-parador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/whats-the-difference-between-a-palador-and-a-parador\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the difference between a palador and a parador?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A parador and a paladar are words that look and sound similar but they are different somehow. &nbsp;&nbsp;A paladar is a privately owned restaurant in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/freedomtravelllc.com\/cuba\/\">Cuba<\/a>, most often in a home.&nbsp; Now those of us here in the US would ask, \u201caren\u2019t all restaurants privately owned?\u201d &nbsp;Up until 1990, all restaurants in Cuba were state-owned.&nbsp; The paladars today are gaining in popularity with tourists looking for a more vivid interaction and homemade Cuban food.&nbsp;&nbsp;A parador is a grand villa, monastery, or castle that has been renovated and converted to a luxury hotel.&nbsp; Paradors are found throughout&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/freedomtravelllc.com\/spain\/\">Spain<\/a>, and in contrast to the paladar of Cuba, they are state-run, not privately owned.&nbsp; Alfonzo XIII found the program in 1928 to promote tourism and in 1942&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/freedomtravelllc.com\/portugal\/\">Portugal<\/a>&nbsp;followed suit with the pousada, a similar model.&nbsp;In summary:Paladar: a privately owned, restaurant in a homeParador: a state-owned hotel in a grand house&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freedomtoursllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/parador.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parador and a paladar are words that look and sound similar but they are different somehow. &nbsp;&nbsp;A paladar is a privately owned restaurant in&nbsp;Cuba, most often in a home.&nbsp; Now those of us here in the US would ask, \u201caren\u2019t all restaurants privately owned?\u201d &nbsp;Up until 1990, all restaurants in Cuba were state-owned.&nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}