Built in the 1740s and owned by the German-Cuban Brunet family, this mansion’s positioning at the very heart of Trinidad’s sixteenth-century central town plaza speaks to the vast wealth that the Brunets garnered from sugar plantations and the hundreds of enslaved people who worked them. The house itself boasted an enslaved staff of over fifty men and women at the height of the family’s prosperity in the nineteenth century, despite the fact that only three white people actually lived in the house. Trinidad de Cuba, 2001.
