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Handpicked properties across every region
We stay in — and rigorously vet — every property we recommend. Peru's finest hotels range from Belmond's palace conversions in Cusco to remote eco-lodges at the Amazon canopy.
Chapter 01
Barranco, Lima
The Pacific drifts up the century-old staircase, and the light through the 1914 skylights still seems to be waiting for another era's salons. In this Belle Époque mansion in Barranco, reborn as Relais & Châteaux with the patience of an antiquary, a private collection of Peruvian contemporary art lives alongside a…
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Lima
Lima is Peru's doorway, not its endpoint. Fausto Andean takes up that idea: where other urban hotels turn their backs on the country beyond, this one offers a prelude — highland weaves, volcanic…
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Barranco, Lima
Nine rooms. No visible reception. No plaque at the door, and once it closes, no parade of guests. Atemporal earns its name: time behaves differently inside these walls — an afternoon can last an…
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Miraflores, Lima
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Plaza de las Nazarenas, Cusco
The cedar at the heart of the main courtyard has watched four centuries pass. Around it, Belmond Monasterio keeps its cloisters, vaulted corridors and a still-consecrated chapel — gold-leaf retablo and all — that few hotels in the world can claim. It was founded in 1592 as the Jesuit seminary of San Antonio Abad, and…
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Plaza de las Nazarenas, Cusco
Cusco's only all-suite hotel. The statement, plain as it is, explains why Palacio Nazarenas occupies a category of its own. A sixteenth-century Dominican convent preserved almost intact: original…
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Plaza de las Nazarenas, Cusco
It was raised in the sixteenth century upon the foundations of an Inca palace, and became Cusco's earliest manor house. Today, Inkaterra La Casona keeps only eleven suites — not one more, not one…
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Historic Centre, Cusco
Cusco admits another reading. It was written, in this case, by Italian architects: across a sixteenth- to seventeenth-century colonial mansion, they worked barrel vaults, lime-washed walls and a…
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Urubamba, Sacred Valley
The Urubamba runs past the garden. It is the centre of everything: the river marks the hours, the willows filter the valley light, and the thirty stepped casitas are arranged to face it. Belmond Rio…
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Urubamba, Sacred Valley
Thirty-four round casitas scattered through a two-hectare botanical garden, surrounded by Peruvian paso horses and a contemporary art collection that could easily stand as a museum. Sol y Luna is the…
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Urubamba, Sacred Valley
On the banks of the Urubamba, among the Apus of the Sacred Valley, Tambo del Inka holds an unusual position: it is the valley's only hotel with its own private rail station to Machu Picchu. The wide…
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Urubamba, Sacred Valley
An Andean hacienda within a valley that remains agricultural. Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba occupies a hundred hectares of Inca terraces, white-corn fields and high pastures, with the Apus Chicón and…
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Urquillos, Sacred Valley
Explora does not think of a hotel as a destination but as a base camp. Its Sacred Valley property — the Chilean chain's newest in Peru — occupies an eighteenth-century hacienda in Urquillos, with…
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Historic Centre, Arequipa
Arequipa is built of sillar — the white volcanic stone of the mountains that ring the city — and Cirqa is perhaps its most refined hotel expression. The property occupies the oldest building in town, dating from 1540, preserving its vaults, cloisters and half-metre-thick original walls. Relais & Châteaux. Only eleven…
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Historic Centre, Arequipa
A restored Republican-era mansion in the historic centre, a few steps from the Plaza de Armas and the Monastery of Santa Catalina. Casa Andina Premium is the most accessible choice in our Arequipa…
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Colca Canyon, Yanque
The Colca Canyon drops four thousand metres and offers, at night, one of the cleanest skies in the Andes. Las Casitas de Belmond take advantage of that topography: twenty free-standing casitas, each…
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Tuti, Colca Canyon
In Quechua, puqio means the spring that rises from the earth. The hotel honours its name: set in Tuti, at 3,800 metres above the Colca valley, it draws from natural spring water and is built in…
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Ica Valley
The first Peruvian winery to integrate hospitality. Viñas Queirolo rises at the heart of the Ica valley, surrounded by eight hundred hectares of estate vineyards — syrah, malbec, torontel, albilla — with the desert always on the horizon. The architecture, in revised colonial lines, is generous and calm; the silence of…
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Paracas Bay
The Bay of Paracas is a pause in the Peruvian coast: calm waters, an unexpected turquoise, flamingoes at dusk, and one of the continent's most important nature reserves directly opposite. Hacienda…
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Paracas Bay
Where the Ica desert meets the Pacific, Hotel Paracas holds the most open position on the bay: every room faces the sea, and the private pier gives direct access to the launches running out to the…
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Lake Titicaca, Puno
A solitary house on a private promontory of Lake Titicaca, forty minutes from Puno and far from any village. That solitude is Titilaka's central asset: the lake — the highest navigable in the world, at 3,800 metres — unfolds in a full three hundred and sixty degrees, and the silence is broad enough to alter the…
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Madre de Dios, Tambopata
The first lodge of the Peruvian Amazon. Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica was inaugurated in 1976 on a seventeen-thousand-hectare concession along the Madre de Dios river, in Tambopata, and remains among the oldest ecotourism references on the continent. Its thirty-five cabañas — built in the traditional technique of the…
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Tambopata River, Madre de Dios
Four hours upriver along the Tambopata, Refugio Amazonas is the middle station in Rainforest Expeditions' ecosystem — between Posada Amazonas and the Tambopata Research Center — and the most balanced…
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Las Pocitas, Máncora
Kilometres of white sand, the warm northern Pacific, and the steady sun that makes Máncora the one Peruvian beach resort in peak season year-round. Arennas holds a privileged position above Las Pocitas, the quietest stretch of the coast, with twenty-four rooms stepped along the cliff and bougainvillea gardens…
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