The quaint town of San Miguel de Allende is getting a luxury resort in 2009. Rosewood Hotels, creator of the fabulous Rosewood Mayakoba in the Riviera Maya, is going to open an ultra-luxe resort in San Miguel de Allende which will be a welcome addition to the famous colonial town. The hotel will have 63 rooms, private residences and a spa.
Rosewood also has another property in Mexico - Las Ventanas al Paraiso in Los Cabos.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Green Retreat in San Miguel de Allende
By Alia Mansoori
Turning right off the road linking the colonial Mexican towns of San Miguel de Allende and Dolores Hidalgo, I headed into the mountains. The smooth pavement of the two-lane highway ended abruptly, and my tiny green-and-white taxi struggled over thick rocks and through even thicker clouds of dust from the arid road, toward the plateau nearly two miles away.
To the right, enormous sprinklers watered verdant patches of alfalfa for a wealthy rancher's prized horses to feed on. To the left, a leathery-skinned old man pulled a sleepy donkey along a desiccated soccer field bordered by enormous cacti.
We passed the village of Morroquin, where colorful paper flags on strings — remnants of a fiesta — blew in the light breeze, toward the smaller village of Mesita. But the nearly intolerable ride was a small price to pay for the oasis that awaited.
On 15 acres of rural Central Mexico mountainside sits the eco-conscious Sagrada Wellness, a boutique hotel and yoga retreat, where guests are immersed in everything from holistic health and cooking classes to yoga, Spanish classes, spa treatments, art and horseback riding. Architect Scott Currie and his wife, Eva Inglizian, a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, created the Sagrada after living in San Miguel de Allende for a year and yearning for a peaceful refuge to call their own and practice their crafts: sustainable architecture and Eastern medicine.
"There's really nothing like this around here," says Inglizian, sitting in the outdoor dining area, as we ate a lunch of yellow rice, beans, sliced nopales (cactus) salad with fresh cheese, homemade corn tortillas, fresh salsa and guacamole, all made with locally grown, organic ingredients.
Touring the Sagrada grounds with Currie and Inglizian is more than a welcome tour you might get at any small hotel; it's an ode to the Earth and the marriage of the past and present.
To read more of the story, please visit:
Green Retreat in San Miguel
http://www.statesman.com/life/content/life/stories/travel/09/16/0916mexicospa.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=48
Turning right off the road linking the colonial Mexican towns of San Miguel de Allende and Dolores Hidalgo, I headed into the mountains. The smooth pavement of the two-lane highway ended abruptly, and my tiny green-and-white taxi struggled over thick rocks and through even thicker clouds of dust from the arid road, toward the plateau nearly two miles away.
To the right, enormous sprinklers watered verdant patches of alfalfa for a wealthy rancher's prized horses to feed on. To the left, a leathery-skinned old man pulled a sleepy donkey along a desiccated soccer field bordered by enormous cacti.
We passed the village of Morroquin, where colorful paper flags on strings — remnants of a fiesta — blew in the light breeze, toward the smaller village of Mesita. But the nearly intolerable ride was a small price to pay for the oasis that awaited.
On 15 acres of rural Central Mexico mountainside sits the eco-conscious Sagrada Wellness, a boutique hotel and yoga retreat, where guests are immersed in everything from holistic health and cooking classes to yoga, Spanish classes, spa treatments, art and horseback riding. Architect Scott Currie and his wife, Eva Inglizian, a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, created the Sagrada after living in San Miguel de Allende for a year and yearning for a peaceful refuge to call their own and practice their crafts: sustainable architecture and Eastern medicine.
"There's really nothing like this around here," says Inglizian, sitting in the outdoor dining area, as we ate a lunch of yellow rice, beans, sliced nopales (cactus) salad with fresh cheese, homemade corn tortillas, fresh salsa and guacamole, all made with locally grown, organic ingredients.
Touring the Sagrada grounds with Currie and Inglizian is more than a welcome tour you might get at any small hotel; it's an ode to the Earth and the marriage of the past and present.
To read more of the story, please visit:
Green Retreat in San Miguel
http://www.statesman.com/life/content/life/stories/travel/09/16/0916mexicospa.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=48
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