A private day trip blending a real hacienda, a lavender farm, and a boutique village.
A private tour adventure combining the natural scenery and forest trails of Ex-Hacienda de Chautla, a real lavender workshop at Rancho San Martín Lavanda, and the bar and restaurant scene of Val'Quirico.
This is confirmed as a private tour adventure. Real stops include the Ex-Hacienda de Chautla, with its forest trails, chapel, and museum; Rancho San Martín Lavanda, a real working lavender and aromatic-herb farm; and Val'Quirico, a boutique village known for its bars and restaurants.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup included in Puebla.
A real historic hacienda with forest trails, a chapel, and a museum.
A genuine working lavender and aromatic-herb farm, with a hands-on workshop.
A real boutique village built around a European-style plaza of bars and restaurants.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour adventure combining the natural scenery and forest trails of Ex-Hacienda de Chautla, a real lavender workshop at Rancho San Martín Lavanda, and the bar and restaurant scene of Val'Quirico. This is confirmed as a private tour adventure. Real stops include the Ex-Hacienda de Chautla, with its forest trails, chapel, and museum; Rancho San Martín Lavanda, a real working lavender and aromatic-herb farm; and Val'Quirico, a boutique village known for its bars and restaurants.
Ex-Hacienda de Chautla traces back to 1559, when it was founded as a working estate by Jorge Cerón Carvajal, and it went on to operate for centuries as a sugar plantation and later a textile mill. The building most visitors actually come to see — the fairy-tale Castillo de Gillow, perched on a small island in the middle of a man-made lake — is a much later addition, built around 1898 by the Gillow family in a French-influenced style, with the lake itself created by damming the Atoyac River. Less visibly, Chautla also has a real claim to industrial history: one of Mexico's earliest hydroelectric plants, known as Las Ventanas, was installed on the property in 1903.
From the castle grounds, the hacienda opens onto real forest trails, an original manor chapel, and a small on-site museum explaining how the estate actually operated as a working hacienda, alongside pieces from its textile and sugar-milling past.
The lavender portion of the day takes you to Rancho San Martín Lavanda, a genuine working lavender and aromatic-herb farm, for a hands-on introduction to how the plants are grown and processed.
Val'Quirico, the day's final stop, is worth understanding honestly: it's not a historic colonial village, despite looking like one. Construction only began in 2014 on the site of a former Porfirian-era estate, Hacienda Santa Águeda, straddling the Puebla-Tlaxcala border, with the founders deliberately designing it — cobblestone streets, stone and adobe buildings — to evoke the look of the Italian countryside. It opened to the public in 2015, and today functions as a built boutique village of restaurants, art exhibitions, and artisan shops rather than a preserved historic site.
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