Las Casas de la Península

The Land · Seyé, Yucatán

Galopina Casa Silvestre

Where the landscape sets the pace.

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The house

Seven hectares of wild land that were once a henequen field of Hacienda Yabucú, inside the Anillo de Cenotes State Reserve. Walking the plot revealed the stone markers of the workers' old grid: that memory became part of the project. Five suites in two registers, Earth and Sky, designed by TACO Taller de Arquitectura Contextual, with interiors by Elisa: rescued furniture, cedar, lime and burnished stucco.

It is on the route because it translates the journey into the wild: an architecture nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize that disappears into the vegetation, its own apiary, and hosts who receive in person. Here the land sets the pace of the stay.

The territory

The cenotes of the ring. The path of the old henequen tram. Breakfast with honey from the apiary. Acanceh and its pyramid beside the church, minutes away. The haciendas nearby.

Those who receive you

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Elisa y Guillaume

Elisa and Guillaume built Galopina as a life project, not a hotel business: a guesthouse with a soul, where they receive guests themselves, breakfast is generous and silence is part of the service. They call it a hotel house, and that word says it all.

From this house

  • A cenote of the ring at first light, when the water still belongs to no one.
  • Acanceh: the Mayan pyramid beside the colonial church, on the same square.
  • The house's meliponary and its melipona bee honey.
  • The Convent Route, on the way to Maní.

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The house, in its own voice

Condé Nast Traveler, best places 2023 · AD · Vogue · Nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize

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