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ABOUT CASA REAL - in their own words:
This exclusive hotel and accompanying neo-gothic chapel are surrounded by a beautifully landscaped 40-hectare park. Guests can also enjoy the impressive Andean Museum, the Doña Paula Restaurant, our La Panadería Café, and assorted winery tours.

Hotel Casa Real is located at the Santa Rita Winery in the Maipo Valley, 45 minutes from Santiago.

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The hotel has 16 elegant and recently refurbished rooms, and its perfectly preserved late 19th-century Pompeian style makes it one of Chile's unique historic monuments.

Natural Heritage
Casa Real Hotel sits in a privileged setting at the foot of the Andes Mountains in Alto Jahuel in the Maipo Valley, an area known for producing Chile’s best Cabernet Sauvignons. The winery owns nearly 1,000 hectares of vineyards, and its scenery is typical of the country’s central zone. The hotel is surrounded by a private 40-hectare park with ancient trees, ponds, black-necked swans, Roman baths, exquisite sculptures, and boxwood labyrinths.

Gastronomic Heritage
Casa Real Hotel offers its guests a unique culinary experience through exquisite pairings of fine cuisine with Santa Rita Winery wines sure to delight the senses. In addition to the restaurant in the hotel, guests may also have lunch in the renowned Doña Paula Restaurant in the late 18th-century colonial home of Doña Paula Jaraquemada. Today it offers the finest traditional Chilean and international cuisine in a classic setting with excellent service

Cultural Heritage
Guests of the hotel are invited to discover Chile’s fascinating Pre-Colombian and Post-Conquest history in the Andean Museum. Inaugurated in 2006, the museum has an ethnographic collection of more than 3,000 pieces from the different cultures that have inhabited the Andean zone—Arica, San Pedro, Diaguita, Llo Lleo, and Mapuche—as well as the Rapa Nui culture of Easter Island, all carefully and respectfully displayed in a very well-curated museum.

Wine Heritage
Santa Rita Winery is one of Chile’s oldest and most traditional wineries. It imported its first fine French grape varieties in 1880, and its wines and winemakers have been internationally recognized ever since. It has earned many important accolades and honors over the years, including being named Wine & Spirits magazine’s “Winery of the Year,” and it is the only winery in South America to receive the Decanter magazine “Wine Legend” Award for its 1989 Casa Real icon wine.

Historic Heritage
Santa Rita has long had strong ties to the history of Chile for diverse reasons, such as its part in the nation’s battle for independence. In 1814, 120 patriots took refuge in Doña Paula Jaraquemada’s home, which is now the Doña Paula Restaurant. Santa Rita Winery is famous 120 brand was named in honor of these brave men. Another important moment occurred 70 years later, when the founder’s daughter, María Luisa Fernández Concha Bascuñán, married Vicente García Huidobro in the chapel that stands beside the hotel. The couple had numerous children, including the famous Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro.