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San Miguel de Allende's colonial architecture and most. Low beds with padded leather headboards are
indigenous traditions combined with classy hotels, dressed in smooth linens and cashmere throws and
restaurants and galleries make it a popular weekend long white lacquered desks have all the right outlets
getaway from Mexico City and second home for more and cables. Some rooms have luxurious freestanding
than 10,000 foreign born residents. Like Santa Fee in tubs stocked with fragrant toiletries. Chairs are
New Mexico and Todos Santos in Baja Sur, the city is a stylish and comfortable. It's the kind of room you hate
magnet for cultural travelers. Here are a few tips to to leave, even with San Miguel's charms right outside.
get you started. No matter what type of lodging, you'll deal with
Sleep I've been hotel hopping around San Miguel some noise and congestion if you stay right around
a few times, and have yet to find a dud. As befits its the Jardín and Parroquia. There are plenty of places
artsy ambience, the city is loaded with sophisticated, to stay along the surrounding streets. Be aware that
design-driven hotels, posadas and inns. Rosewood has some will be perched on steep streets. I've had the
a posh hotel with an excellent restaurant, great pool good fortune to stay with a dear friend in the San
and art concierges to guide guests through the hotel's Antonio neighborhood, a 10minute walk from the
impressive collection and provide info on local center. It's a good base with plenty of interesting
galleries. Rooms at the venerable, gracious Casa de restaurants and shops and the prestigious Instituto
Sierra Nevada are located in six handsomely restored Allende art and language school. The Guadalupe
mansions, some dating to the 16 century. Artsy neighborhood is edgier, with vibrant murals on
th
B&Bs, posadas and rental properties abound. buildings and walls.
I'm particularly fond of Hotel Matilda, a blissfully Eat Food is a big part of the San Miguel
comfortable, chic boutique hotel awarded Best City experience. Its starts simply, with a scoop of corn or
Hotel in Mexico in 2019 and 2017 by Travel + Leisure avocado ice cream from a sidewalk cart, and ends at a
readers. Paintings, photographs and sculptures from rooftop restaurant overlooking the Parroquia. I've
Mexico's finest contemporary artists fill spare white had great Japanese, Peruvian, Thai and Mexican
spaces through the sleek complex. The restaurant, bar meals at various spots around town. There are always
and spa are superb. But it's the comforting details in a few contemporary restaurants worth checking out.
the graphite and white rooms that delight me the I'm a fan of breakfast at the Hotel Matilda's Moxi,

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