Rosewood San Miguel de Allende

Within the historic centre of San Miguel de Allende, one of Mexico’s most beloved colonial cities and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Rosewood San Miguel de Allende was converted from a sixteenth-century hacienda complex into a hotel of 67 rooms and suites that maintain the original building’s spatial language — courtyard gardens, arched arcades, stone fountains, and the pale pink quarry-stone of the colonial architecture — while providing a level of contemporary comfort appropriate to its position in the Mexican luxury hotel market. The rooftop terrace and its restaurant overlook the city’s iconic Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel, the neo-Gothic parish church whose pink towers have become the most recognisable image in all of colonial Mexico.

The restaurant Luna, which serves contemporary Mexican cuisine from the rooftop terrace above the city, and the all-day El Restaurante within the hotel’s garden courtyard, draw on the agricultural produce of the Bajío highlands and the rich culinary traditions of Guanajuato state — the carnitas, enchiladas mineras, and chiles en nogada of the central Mexican kitchen — executed with the technique appropriate to a hotel of this calibre. The Luna Spa’s treatment programme draws on indigenous Mexican healing traditions and the mineral-rich waters of the Bajío’s thermal springs that have been used for therapeutic purposes since pre-Hispanic times. The city’s gallery district, its artisan craft market, and the Festival Internacional Cervantino — one of Latin America’s most significant performing arts events — give San Miguel an exceptionally rich cultural calendar.

Rosewood San Miguel de Allende’s relationship with the city’s creative community is expressed through its support for the local artisan traditions in the hotel’s textiles, ceramics, and ironwork, and through a cultural programme that brings local artists, musicians, and craftspeople into the hotel as active participants rather than as performers providing entertainment.