A sprawling blend of indigenous and Spanish colonial influences, the traditional Mexican hacienda is a rural estate with thick adobe walls, red clay tile roofing, and spacious courtyards with ...

Onward, the Mexican land rush. Lured by beachfront vistas, quaint colonial backdrops and a historic construction boom, thousands of Americans are heading down Mexico way to snap up vacation homes, ...

Haciendas are Mexico's version of the United States' Southern plantations: A throwback to a past era (some date to the 16th century) when wealthy families owned vast tracts of land and employed ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Starwood is promoting a Hacienda Hopping package at four of its Mexican haciendas, which belong to its Luxury Collection. The four are the Hacienda Temozon, Hacienda Santa Rosa ...

"Are there ghosts here?" I asked Monica, the owner of Hacienda El Carmen, as we sat in the courtyard of her 18th-century family home about an hour outside of Guadalajara. My eyes were wide with almost ...

The owners of every hacienda hotel in Latin America set out to re-create the gracious, residential feeling of the plantation houses they once were. Few succeeded as fully as Alix Marcaccini (née ...

Aztec and Maya rulers built extraordinary palaces amid some of Mexico's finest landscapes long before the Spanish conquistadors arrived. Over the following centuries, emperors, mining magnates and ...

Mexican studio Práctica Arquitectura has designed La Hacienda Jardín, a holiday home in Tepoztlán built from Texcal volcanic stone and Durango pine around a central courtyard. Located one hour south ...