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5 days agoEl Retiro Spa / Mendiola Arregui
A mountain spa retreat in Tapalpa deliberately eliminates facade design, prioritizing intimate inhabitation over external visual presence.
At least half the wonder of the Austrian alpine spa atmosphere at Hotel Krallerhof is in its exterior: a low, dramatic silhouette built into the hotel's sloping terrain, with a sloping green roof split in two, one holding a (in the snowy wintertime) Frozen-worthy staircase up and over. A nearly 5,500 square-meter natural bathing lake sprawls out in front of it, with a 50-meter heated infinity pool almost invisibly stretching through, fed