The “Haciendas” are places that reflect the history of the little towns that surround them. Architectonic styles, domestical and social traditions, economical activities and legends are stamped in this areas that conjugated men and nature all together.
The Hacienda “San Ildefonso Teya”, that now is located just a few minutes away from the city of Mérida, was founded in the year 1683 by Doña Ildefonsa Antonia Marcos Bermejo Calderón y de la Helguera, who was the wife of the noble Count of Miraflores.
Raised in the Colonial times, devoted for two centuries to cattle ranching, corn and other agricultural work, until the XIX century, when they oriented it’s work to Henequen.
Demolished and abandoned, was bought by it’s current owner Don Jorge Carlos Cárdenas Gutiérrez in 1974, who rebuilt it from 1987 to 1991 and opened one of the most popular restaurant in Yucatán so far, just as the salons for social events, building it self as the first Yucatecan Hacienda Inn. |
