Sleep in an Incan Temple
July 15th, 2009 | Admin
Hacienda San Agustín de Callo, nestled in Ecuador’s “Avenue of the Volcanoes” (and featured in a story of the same name by Charles Kulander in our April 2009 issue), calls itself an “archaeological estancia” and there’s good reason for that. The hacienda’s formal dining room and chapel were built around 1440 by one of the last Incan emperors, Huayna-Cápac, out of intricately carved volcanic stone. Eighteenth-century Spanish colonial additions and 19th-century republican styles were piled over top of the Incan imperial architecture. Layer upon layer of Ecuadorian pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary history co-mingle and captivate at site.