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...Who Sotheby’s International Realty Villa, Marbella, €9.5mn Where About 14km east of Marbella in the residential area of Hacienda Las Chapas, which has two golf clubs less than 10 minutes’ drive away....
...“These areas are becoming a bubble, like New York and LA, and it’s not sustainable at all for nationals or locals.”...
...The Hacienda was a good place to get the measure of La Palma’s quirky personality....
...Having grown up in the Canary Islands, I also might wager how the slow-culture hacienda owner in Paul Richardson’s transporting elegy to La Palma (“Spotlight on La Palma”, Life & Arts, June 26) would feel...
...At Hacienda de San Rafael, not far from Jerez de la Frontera, owner Anthony Reid periodically partners with British fishing/birding guide and naturalist Oliver Rampley to host small private groups....
...But Alberto del Hoyo, current owner of Hacienda de las Cuatro Ventanas and the eighth generation of the family, is no tweedy aristocrat....
...Why Landscape architect Lockwood de Forest Jr designed the gardens, which include an olive-lined drive, a pond and a sunken garden bordered by roses....
...As the only guest at the Hacienda Huayoccari, I had breakfast with the owner José Ignacio Lambarri in his garden filled with roses, agapanthus and agave plants....
...My tour began at Hacienda La Danesa, an hour outside Guayaquil on Ecuador’s Pacific coast, where the day starts early....
...The Hacienda is on the site of an old sugar mill in a handful of buildings spread around a core of gorgeous tropical gardens, set in an amphitheatre of banana plantations, just below the cheerful town of...
...A second is the remodelling of the central courtyard, which is now a magnificent 1,600 sq m garden in the formal French style (though luckily no “pelouse interdite” signs here)....
...The location underlined the brand’s ongoing relationship with the pedestrian garden on which it hosts an annual summer party, whose ticket price is put towards the walkway’s upkeep....
...October 26-February 14, barbican.org.uk Slideshow photographs: Eames Office LLC; Antonia Mulas/Eames Office LLC; Timothy Street-Porter/Eames Office LLC; Library of Congress, Washington DC/Eames Office LLC...
...Who Baltic Sotheby’s International Realty, sothebysrealty.com Tel: +371 6722 4645 Hacienda de la Paz, 1 Buggy Whip Drive, Rolling Hills, California, $53m Where In Rolling Hills, a city on the Palos Verdes...
...Hacienda Palancar, Reserva de la Biósfera Sian-Ka’an, Tulum, Mexico, $30m Where On the Yucatán Peninsula in the southeast of Mexico, approximately eight miles south of Tulum....
...And what I got on that first night was a one bed-roomed, dingy little “hacienda” in the town of Izamal, where I was served dinner in a mosquito-ridden garden....
...Who Savills, savills.com, tel: +44 20 7016 3780 … Porte de la Muette, Paris, France, €9m Where Near the Porte de la Muette in Paris’s 16 Arrondissement, 7km from the centre of Paris and 28km from Charles...
...The dining area on top has views of Bishop’s Palace gardens and the cathedral, and out towards Palma Bay....
...La Barra has a hippy vibe, Punta is for families and Jose Ignacio tends to attract the younger, wealthier party crowd....
...Later it became a convent and eventually an enlarged hacienda that simply absorbed the Inca dwellings....
...www.hotel-sahara.com Hacienda de Abajo, La Palma, Canary Islands A world away from the brash seafront hotels on the bigger islands, the Hacienda de Abajo is a restored 17th-century sugar estate, with rooms...
...The exterior of the hacienda-style property was largely left alone....
...Even so, at the events held in the RBS Main Theatre on Charlotte Square Gardens, not a single speaker voiced worries over the future of RBS’s sponsorship....
...But, reflecting changing global economics, the Mexican Hacienda version runs to $10,000 more (an automatic margarita mixer, perhaps?)....
...Homebuyers in the city are advised to apply the perfect Buenos Aires look – which hovers at present between hacienda chic and a contemporary, industrial feel – to furnishings and fittings....
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