El hotel de los secretos

El hotel de los secretos^[1] is a Mexican telenovela produced by Roberto Gómez Fernández for Televisa. It is an adaptation of the Spanish series Gran Hotel, created by Ramón Campos and Gema R. Neira.^[2]

The series stars Irene Azuela, Erick Elías, Diana Bracho and Daniela Romo.^[3][4][5][6]

The series begins with the chance encounter of two strangers on a train. Even though Isabel Alarcón (Irene Azuela) comes from a wealthy family and Julio Olmedo (Erick Elías) doesn't even have a hat of his own, much less the money to buy a ticket, there is a lot of chemistry between them from the start.

They part as abruptly as they met, with no hope of seeing each other again. Julio continues on foot to the Gran Hotel, where he hopes to find his sister, Cristina (Ximena Herrera). Upon arrival, he learns that she has been fired from her job and has subsequently disappeared. Julio senses that something is wrong and, in order to investigate, he manages to get hired as a waiter at the establishment.

Meanwhile, to his surprise, Isabel arrives at the hotel and it is revealed that she is the daughter of Doña Teresa (Diana Bracho), the stern Alarcón matriarch and owner of the place.

Behind a dignified and prosperous façade, Doña Teresa's family hides abundant dark secrets. The upcoming episodes tell a sordid story of deceit, family intrigue, ghosts of the past, betrayal and even murder, all centered on the very respectable and elegant Gran Hotel. As the world seems to crumble around them, Julio and Isabel must overcome class differences, social prejudices and family loyalties, as well as their own past, while fighting for their great love.^[7]

• Irene Azuela as Isabel Alarcón^[8]
• Erick Elías as Julio Olmedo^[9]
• Diana Bracho as Teresa de Alarcón^[10]
• Daniela Romo as Ángela Gómez^[11]

• Jorge Poza as Diego Montejo^[12][13]
• Carlos Rivera as Andrés Salinas^[14][15][16]
• Dominika Paleta as Sofía Alarcón^[17][18]
• Alejandro de la Madrid as Alfredo Vergara^[19][20]
• Ilse Salas as Belén García^[21][22]
• Pablo Cruz-Guerrero as Felipe Alarcón^[23]
• Jesús Ochoa as Detective Serapio Ayala^[24]
• Eduardo España as Dagoberto Suárez^[25]
• Juan Carlos Barreto as Lupe^[26]
• Luis Gatica as Genaro
• Claudia Ríos as Melibea
• Regina Blandón as Matilde Salaberri^[27]
• Josh Gutiérrez as Jacinto
• Arantza Ruiz as Violeta
• Silvia Mariscal as Elisa
• Luis Couturier as Benjamín Nieto^[28]
• Queta Lavat as Mrs. Limantour
• Juan Ferrara as Lázaro

Production began on October 26, 2015 at Televisa San Ángel's Studio 10^[32] and concluded on May 16, 2016.^[33] The production team and cast spent seven months filming the soap opera.^[33]

The series was shot using cinematographic techniques and the directors of photography were Luis García and Diego Tenorio; the stage direction was under the responsibility of Francisco Franco and Ana Lorena Pérez-Ríos.^[33]

250 people worked on the costumes, creating more than 13,000 pieces.^[33]

The series is set in Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century.^[33] The main setting for the telenovela was a neoclassical building constructed in 1910 and at the time home to the largest psychiatric hospital in Mexico.^[33]

La Castañeda, currently located in Amecameca, State of Mexico, was the main location for the development of the telenovela.^[33] The Santa María Regla Hacienda, situated in Hidalgo, was the setting that was primarily adapted for the town that appeared in the series. To create the fictional town of San Cristóbal Tlaxico, settings such as a bar, offices, a brothel, a bakery, a telegraph office, a pharmacy, a market, the seamstress's house, a store and street vendors were recreated.^[33]

The series was filmed in various locations such as: Mexico City, Morelos, Hidalgo, the State of Mexico, Aguascalientes and Televisa San Ángel studios.^[33]

The soundtrack is titled the same as the soap opera and was released on June 21, 2016, under the Fonarte Latino record label.^[34][35]