~ Recent Accolades ~
National Geographic Traveler
Featured in the first-ever, annual “Stay List.”
April 2008
Fodor's Choice Award
2006, 2007
Luxury Travel Award,
Luxury Travel Magazine, 2005
AAA Four Diamond Award - 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003
For Lovers of Luxury Travel
“This jaw-droppingly gorgeous property is the finest example of Spanish Colonial architecture that we have experienced…”
The Sybarite’s Journal, 2006
“The 25 rooms, all individually designed, have antiques, fireplaces, original artwork and tile floors topped with thick carpets, and they all front courtyards lush with fountains, small swimming pools and leafy guanacaste trees ”
New York Times, December, 2005
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"My pleasure in getting to know the homeowners we have featured in this magazine has never been greater than with Jim and Nancy Swickard, who slowly and meticulously built the Hacienda de los Santos in Alamos,
Sonora, Mexico”
Tucson Lifestyle Home & Garden Magazine,
September/October 2007
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This past summer, the town of Alamos became one of 21 "Magical
Pueblos," a list that includes places like Tequila
in Jalisco state and San Miguel de Allende.
"...An enclave of Spanish Colonial architecture set
in a lush landscape of pools, fountains, Moorish gateways
and wildly decadent foliage... The pristine beauty of this
isolated town in the Sierra Madre Occidental - feels almost
surreal. Alamos shimmers in bas-relief like a luminous jewel
set into foothills of green chenille
-- Architectural Digest / January, 2005
"A telltale sign that you have arrived at a true oasis is when the employees gently but firmly take charge of you."
-- Outside Traveler / Winter, 2005