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The Town · Espita, Yucatán

Casona Los Cedros

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Editorial photograph to be defined · Casona Los Cedros

The house

Two blocks from Espita's plaza, this casona was the home of a local family, then a popular cantina, and spent thirty years in silence. Architect Laura Lecué and Alan Montfort brought it back into the life of the town: they recovered the original building with lime, stone and chukum, and added a contemporary wing with eight rooms and the pool at the back of the tropical garden.

It is on the route because its restoration was made with the town's own crafts: the bejuco weaving, the pottery, the embroidery, the carpentry of Espita. The house is not merely in the town: it belongs to it.

The territory

The plaza at dusk. The morning market. The potter's workshop. The restaurant table, a destination in itself. Ek Balam and the cenotes half an hour away.

Those who receive you

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Laura y Alan

Laura Lecué, the project's architect, and Alan Montfort left France to bet on a town in eastern Yucatán. She signed the restoration; both remain close, receiving guests. Their bet was simple and radical: that a recovered casona could sustain the crafts that built it.

From this house

  • Ek Balam at sunrise, before the heat and the buses.
  • Espita's market and the potter's workshop, a few streets from the house.
  • Río Lagartos and the flamingos, the full-day excursion.
  • The house's own table: seasonal Yucatecan cooking in the garden.

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The house, in its own voice

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