Rubí, Barcelona: Guide, Hotels, Map & Photos
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EUR 50 - 109 Park Sedo Benstar Hotel Group
 Aparthotel Park Sedó is situated in a quiet part of Rubí, less than 30 minutes’ drive from Barcelona. It features free WiFi, a gym and swimming po… MoreEUR 50 - 105 Hotel Sant Pere II
 Hotel Sant Pere II is set in the town of Rubí, 1 kilometre from the AP-7 motorway. This offers direct access to Barcelona, 17 kilometres away.
Free … MoreEUR 39 - 500 H2 Rubi
 The H2 Rubi is located 10-minutes’ walk from Rubi Ferrocarril Railway Station. It offers a free private car park and rooms with free Wi-Fi, free bot… MoreEUR 46 - 90 City Park Hotel Rubí
 City Park Hotel Rubí is located in Rubí, 20 km outside Barcelona. It offers a large garden with an outdoor pool and tennis courts, and air-condition… More | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rubí, Barcelona: Guide
For the town in Catalonia, see Rubí, Barcelona.
Rubí ("Ruby") is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 2004. The plot is based on the story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché and the telenovela that aired in 1968 with Fanny Cano.
Rubí was a huge success in many countries. Apart from the United States and Latin America, the telenovela garnered high ratings in the Philippines, Malaysia, Israel, Eastern Europe, among many others, and made Bárbara Mori, the lead actress, and both Eduardo Santamarina and Sebastián Rulli major stars in Latin America.
Plot
Rubí is a beautiful, charismatic young woman from a working-class background. She is studying at a university because of her sister's great efforts. Rubí is best friends with Maribel, a wealthy young woman with a small defect in her leg. Rubí eventually meets Maribel's boyfriend Hector and his best friend Alejandro. A much darker truth lies inside of Rubí. She is driven by a dark ambition that will stop at nothing to get what she wants, and what she wants is to escape from poverty and be wealthy.
Alejandro offers her true love but no luxuries due to his middle class. She rejects him despite the fact that she believes he is her true love. Rubí then seduces Héctor, because like Maribel he is very wealthy, and on the day of his wedding to Maribel, they run away leaving Maribel in the deepest and darkest hour of her life. Rubí finally has the lifestyle and money that she's always dreamed of, but she soon learns that money isn't everything.
She begins to miss Alejandro and decides to get him back at any cost even when Maribel and Alejandro have moved on, and even begin dating each other. Alejandro soon is torn between Rubí and Maribel; Rubí is torn between money and Alejandro. Rubí will do anything to get what she wants, even if its at the expense of others and even if it means hurting everyone in her path. At one point Rubí considers changing, but returns to being the bad girl. Even after a fortune teller tells her to change or she will be punished for her sins, Rubí doesn't give this much thought and goes on with her life.
Finally Alejandro pays her a visit one more time to tell her that its over. Its finished and that he has chosen Maribel. After all her schemes, lies, and backstabbing Rubí begs him to not go. At this point she sheds her dignity and any pride that she has left. She gets on her knees and wraps her hands around his leg and begs him to not go. He's her true love and she refuses to let him go. Alejandro is sick and tired of her evil ways. He leaves and walks down the stairs, and then Rubí follows him, she holds on to a balcony stair but then slips and falls several stories. Thankfully the scene isn't too gruesome. At the hospital they have to amputate her leg to save her life.
Rubí doesn't die and even at her most desperate point she doesn't repent. Her sister Christina tries to encourage her and tells her that she can lead a new life, just differently. Everything Rubí had is gone. Her wealthy, young husband Hector dies, and he loved her and wanted her until the very end. The corporation stocks that he left her with are gone, as well as any money that she had left. She is completely behind on her rent and she is hated in her community. Even her beauty is gone.
Rubí even alienates her best friend, who has always been by her side and stood by her, even towards the end when he discovered how evil she really was. She asks the fortune teller to visit her one more time, and he tells her that its the result of all her actions, and this is her punishment. She has a hard time accepting the truth. She wants to be like she was before, beautiful and alluring, but everything she ever had is gone. She doesn't repent and is without shame, she tries to make a desperate attempt to kill Alejandro at his wedding to Maribel, but she can't. He's her true love and she will always love him.
Special Episode after Final Episode
One reason that this soap was high rated was because it didn't fall on the usual soap cliches. Usually soaps or telenovelas are centered around the good girl, but Rubí isn't sweet or good. She's beautiful, smart, cunning, and sly. After the final episode, a special episode was run of Rubí's history and future. In this special, viewers learned that Rubí has suffered much from her poverty, and as a result will go to any lengths to be rich. Christina has complex feelings, she loves Rubí as a sister but is disappointed in her actions.
Her mother loves Rubí too but at one point disowns her because of Rubí's constant greed, and yet Rubí still needs a mother's love. Is that what pushes Rubí to be what she is? Rubí also has a secret relationship with her niece and teaches her all of Rubí's evil ways, and then sends the young girl back into the lives of Alejandro and Maribel to take her revenge. That's how the soap ends. Has the happy ending been guaranteed? That's up for the viewer to decide. The soap ends with the possibility of a sequel. There has been talk of a sequel but nothing has been decided for now and the actors have moved on to their individual projects.
Awards
One of the most successful Novelas in 2004/2005. in the Latin American awards, "Premios: TV y Novelas 2005" Rubí took the major awards. The soap won the awards for best soap opera, best female protagonist (Barbara Mori), best male protagonist (Eduardo Santamarina), best overall actress (Ana Martin), best theme music (La Descarada by Reyli), and best scene direction.
Cast
Bárbara Mori .... Rubí Pérez (later known as Rubí Pérez de Ferrer)/Fernanda Martínez Pérez(teenager)
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Eduardo Santamarina... Alejandro Cárdenas Ruíz
Jacqueline Bracamontes... Maribel De La Fuente
Sebastián Rulli... Héctor Ferrer Garza
Ana Martín .... Refugio Ochoa viuda de Pérez
Yadhira Carrillo .... Elena Navarro
Marlene Favela .... Sonia Chavarría González
Paty Díaz .... Cristina Pérez Ochoa
Josefina Echánove .... Pancha Muñoz
Antonio Medellín .... Ignacio Cárdenas
Ana Bertha Espín .... Elisa de Duarte
Olivia Bucio .... Carla de Cárdenas
Luis Gatica .... Cayetano Martínez
Leonorilda Ochoa .... Dolores Herrera Guzmán'Doña Lola'
Roberto Vander .... Arturo De La Fuente
Ofelia Cano .... Victoria Gallegos
Miguel Pizarro .... Loreto Echagüe
Arlette Pacheco .... Lilia López de Duarte
Ingrid Martz .... Lorena Treviño
Jan .... Marco Rivera
José Elías Moreno .... Genaro Duarte
Manuel Landeta .... Lucío Montemayor
Sergio Goyri .... Yago Píetrasanta
Dolores Salomón .... Mariquita (as Dolores Salomón 'Bodokito')
Tania Vázquez .... Sofía Cárdenas Ruiz
Sergio Argueta .... Fransisco 'Paco' Gómez Gallegos
Eduardo Rodríguez .... Saúl Mendez
Carlos Cámara .... Dr. José Luis Bermúdez
Adriana Roel .... Hilda Mendez
Lorena Velázquez .... Mary Chavarría
Mariana Rountree .... Ingrid Mendoza
José Antonio Ferral .... Garduño
Gerardo Albarrán .... Gabriel Anzalma
Marco Méndez .... Luis Duarte López
Nicole Vale .... Natalia 'Naty' Duarte López
Claudia Benedetti .... Lupe
Lilia Aragón .... Nora Navarro
María Fernanda García .... Valeria
Roberto Sen .... David Treviño
Sergio Zaldívar .... Gazcón
Manuel Foyo .... Ernesto Bermúdez
Raúl Valerio .... Doctor Mosques
Sergio Jurado .... Lic. Millán
Roger Cudney .... Howard Williams
Amelia Zapata .... Celia Fuentes
Karen Sandoval .... Naty Duarte López (II)
Manuel 'Flaco' Ibáñez .... Onésimo Segundo
Kristel Casteele .... Fernanda Martínez Pérez(child)External links
on Novelahitz
on Novelahitz
on Televisa.
on IMDB.