A 19-room estate with nine private rooms available for guests, all with hand embroidered linens and beautiful garden views. A member of the Plaza family will be your host and show you around the hand embroidery workshop, the condor rehabilitation project, the trout farm and the cheese factory. Zuleta is surrounded by magnificent Andean landscapes that you can enjoy on foot, horseback or bicycle.

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The second hacienda that we visit is Hacienda San Agustin de Callo and its associated working farm nestled in the foothills of the Andes, near the entrance to Cotopaxi National Park. This five star hacienda is located just 75 km south of Quito, at an elevation of 3,000 m (9,857 ft). The hacienda has an extremely unique history, including Incan Imperial, 18 th Century Spanish Colonial and 19 th Century Republican. Architectural styles from all three periods are evident just from the main courtyard. The dining room and chapel walls are preserved rooms from the former Incan temple. Also from the dining room, you will enjoy a great view of Cotopaxi while enjoying Ecuadorian cuisine made from vegetables grown in the Hacienda's garden.

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The Incan temple was constructed around 1440 by one of the last Incan Emperors, Tupac-Yupanqui, and still today two of these original rooms exist as the grounds estate chapel and dining room. These offer a glimpse of the famous Incan temple masonry, which features precisely cut and carved stones that are closely fitted without the use of mortar.

Then after the Spanish Conquest, the former Incan temple was converted into an Augustinian convent. This created an estate that blended some of the Incan masonry with the Spanish colonial architecture popular in the 16 th century. An interesting side note is that during its time as a convent it was home to the visiting French Geodesic Mission, whose research determined whether the circumference of the Earth was greater around the Equator or around the poles. The Mission’s work confirmed that the Earth is oblate, or flattened at the poles, and marked the equator- which was later influential in the naming of the country “ Republic of Ecuador” when it gained independence from Spain in 1830.

Finally in 1921 the Hacienda was purchased by General Leonidas Plaza Gutierrez, the leader of the liberal Revolution and in 1901 the President of Ecuador. The Hacienda still remains in the family and is currently owned by the General's granddaughter, Mignon Plaza.

This luxurious 18th Century country estate is nestled in the Andean valley just south of Quito. The manor house, chapel and estate gardens were constructed in 1730 by the Marquees of Miraflores and have remained in the family ever since. Each generation has seen to the maintenance and restoration of this charming estate over the last three-hundred years.

There are a plethora of activities to partake in while at the Hacienda Chillo-Jijón: hike or bicycle along the shaded paths through estate’s 24 acres of exotic gardens and woodlands, play a game of tennis in their private courts, horseback ride through the Andean countryside, soak up sun in the estate’s colonial patios, catch up on your journaling in the library, enjoy lively conversations and a full bar in the salon or just relax in the romantic atmosphere of your private fireplace suite. For golf enthusiasts, the best 18-hole golf course in Ecuador is just ten minutes from the hacienda.

The Jijón family inherited the estate in 1850, on the maternal line, and it remains their permanent home still today. In 1999 they opened their doors to guests, and everyone that visits the hacienda agrees that the warm and gracious hospitality and wonderful cuisine provided by the Jijón family are top notch here! The Jijóns personally welcome and invite their visitors to relax and explore the estate during their stay.