Cordoba, Argentina, spelled as Córdoba in Spanish, doesn’t get a complete lot of international vacationers, though it’s the second-largest metropolis in Argentina. It does have one flight per week from Chile and is lower than 500 miles from Buenos Aires, however few vacationers have town on their to-do listing.
It’s a nice mid-sized metropolis to spend a while in although, with one of many oldest universities within the Americas and a big Jesuit monks complicated joined by different Spanish Colonial buildings within the historic middle.
Till lately we solely had one luxurious resort in Cordoba featured, the 15-room resort Azur Actual Boutique, in the course of the motion within the metropolis. One in every of our correspondents lately acquired into what is de facto probably the most luxurious property round, nevertheless, a sister resort to the beautiful Home of Jasmines Estancia outdoors of Salta.
So listed here are the 2 luxurious resorts in Cordoba to think about, one within the coronary heart of town, one on the outskirts with a whole lot of land.
Estancia El Colibri
As with Home of Jasmines, El Colibri is a rustic hacienda became a resort. It sits on a 250-acre farm with a complete managerie of animals, from polo ponies to quail. Right here’s the opening paragraph to what our correspondent skilled when getting there:
The ultimate leg of the journey to Estancia El Colibri took me by a bucolic countryside scene of grassy fields and grazing livestock. On the façade of the resort—which glowed within the afternoon mild and appeared to have been freshly painted for my arrival—employees members greeted me because the resort’s fluffy brown free-range llama roamed the grounds close by.
You definitely gained’t be roughing at this property although: the rooms vary from 516 sq. ft to 1,130 sq. ft and all have fireplaces, bathtubs, hand-painted partitions, and radiant warmth flooring. Most have some type of out of doors area.
The meals and wine listed here are well worth the journey too, with an inviting well-stocked wine cellar and La Desk restaurant that has made the resort a part of the Relais & Chateaux group since 2016. The present chef labored at a restaurant in France (the place the homeowners are from) at a 3-star Michelin restaurant and your meals right here will probably be memorable ones, together with breakfast.
There’s additionally a spa on web site providing a jetted tub, a dry sauna, a moist sauna, and a therapy room for massages. You possibly can chill out on the out of doors pool or take pleasure in actions like gourmand cooking courses, croquet, horseback driving, and bicycling across the property.
This distinctive resort is a splurge, with charges beginning at $590 per evening, however most company discover it to be well worth the journey into the countryside for a number of days.
See our current detailed assessment of Estancia El Colibri in Cordoba, Argentina.
Azur Actual Lodge Boutique Cordoba
Housed in a constructing greater than a century outdated that was initially a slightly utilitarian college, this boutique resort emerged from a five-year renovation venture by the homeowners to change into a classy small resort. Classroom numbers are nonetheless above the doorway for lots of the rooms, whereas others are duplexes added later to the highest ground.
From right here you’ll be able to stroll to a lot of the points of interest within the middle of town and it’s a brief cab journey to nearly wherever else that you must go. Once you return, you’ll chill out in a room outfitted with robes and slippers, capsule espresso machines, and within the duplexes, large whirlpool tubs. Or head as much as the roof.
The resort’s rooftop open-air lounge is snug and welcoming and the hotter temperatures in Córdoba imply that company can benefit from the area just about year-round. The roof deck additionally has a small plunge pool and loads of lounging furnishings, together with day beds. This is a wonderful place to benefit from the resort’s nightly visitor joyful hour with regional salami, cheese, and wine.
After our assessment went up, administration added a spa space to the basement stage that has whirlpools lit by candlelight and you may schedule a therapeutic massage or different therapy.
Charges are $200 to $480 relying on the time of yr, demand, and which room choice you select. See our full assessment of Azur Actual Lodge Boutique in Cordoba.
Article by Timothy
Timothy Scott is the founder and editor of Luxurious Latin America and has been protecting the area as a journey journalist because the mid-2000s. He has visited every nation we cowl a number of occasions and is predicated in a UNESCO World Heritage metropolis in central Mexico, the place he owns a house. See contact info right here.