And, of course, there are plenty of castles, estates, and old manors to get your history fix.
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Lindsay Cohn,
Travel + Leisure,
13 June 2026
Blackwood, with her firsthand knowledge of drafty manors and unhinged families, explains with remorseless precision what lies behind the fantasy—what happens when the houses, and the people in them, are neither charismatic nor lovable.
His son Walter returned in 1961 with his wife Daphne, whose decade of dedicated work revived the gardens—and their daughter Felicity, alongside her husband Jeremy Peter‑Hoblyn, carried that legacy forward from the 1970s, allowing the grounds to flourish once again.
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Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
For the first time on June 19, the community got to use the playground, tour the gardens, and run down the sledding hill.
The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
While arched passageways reference those found in classic haciendas, the walls are hand-finished in quintessentially Mexican chukum plaster.
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