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The history of Quinto Cecilio begins in 1996, when Miguel Lospitao came up with the idea of ??building a small inn on the highest part of the mountain in front of the Medellín castle.

Being a young man with the desire to conquer the world, he went to Germany to look for a job as a bricklayer, or whatever it was, to earn his bread and bring money to his family. This was where he continually admired the figure of a restaurant on top of a German hill? Miguel continued working as a bricklayer, returned to Spain and became a famous builder in his city? It was not until almost 30 years later, when he wanted to capture what he saw in Germany, in the town of Medellín. And from an inn that he wanted to build, he turned it years later into a large tourist complex, giving his clients a place to eat, rest and stay.

He named this complex based on the Roman politician and military man Quinto Cecilio Metelo Pío, founder of the Metellinum camp (current Medellín) during the years 79-78 BC, based on Miguel, in the history of our county as the most important quote, enjoying the logo of the restaurant with the Attic Kylix, headed by the figure of the GOD ZEUS, which was the first discovery of the Medellín necropolis.

A sociological study back in 1996 made us discover certain needs that the population of Extremadura lacked and, at the same time, needed. Extremadura society was missing traditional food, that of our grandparents. From this lack, we structure our traditional cuisine with an avant-garde touch, thinking about the future, merging ingredients and products from our land of Extremadura, as well as from the seas that surround Spain.

It should be said that, after several years shipwrecked by the labyrinths in which avant-garde cuisine found itself, we made rice dishes our specialty. Soupy rice, which started from the closest to our land, such as chicken, hare, seasonal birds... up to rice with shrimp and rice with lobster, a delicacy for the palate.