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Photography: Leonardo Finotti

Big-sky thinking

SACROMONTE LANDSCAPE, MALDONADO

DEPARTURE INFO

We take time to reflect in Uruguay, go boho in a Byron Bay

bungalow and chow down in Chengdu and Helsinki

CABIN CLASS

Top and above, the 13 spacious,

prefabricated cabins at the

Sacromonte Landscape hotel

in Uruguay feature one side

that is entirely made up of

smoky, one-way mirror glass,

while the interiors are clad in

cool dark stone and oak

Escaping from the madding crowd is all

very well, so long as one does it with

minimal discomfort and inconvenience.

Checking all the right boxes is this

millennial getaway set in the wild sierras

of Maldonado, north of Uruguay’s

Punta del Este. Architecture studio MAPA,

which has offices in Uruguay and Brazil,

has gently inserted 13 spacious cabins –

prefabricated in Montevideo and assembled

on-site with minimal disruption to the

natural terrain – into a hundred hectares

of grasslands, spring-water reservoirs, and

vineyards bristling with tannat, merlot

and cabernet sauvignon grapes. The entire

front of each cabin is sheathed in smoky,

one-way mirror glass, which creates a simple

but effective camouflage against the setting,

while providing the interiors, lined with

cool dark stone and oak wall panels, with

uninterrupted views of the sierra. And set

on a hilltop is the retreat’s farm-to-table

restaurant, which serves barbecued lamb,

veal and wild boar. Daven Wu

Camino La Guillermina, Maldonado,

Uruguay, tel: 598.9546 7676, sacromonte.com.

Rates: from $700

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