CasaMolle Villa

The villa accommodates big families, couples, and groups of friends. This breathtaking villa offers an excellent gastronomy service, guided trekking, star gazing and Yoga classes. CasaMolle Villa also features an open bar, an outdoor pool, hot tubs, and sauna. The property has cactus gardens, hiking trails, stables, a pond, and an executive golf course. Guests can take part in activities such as golf, bike-riding, guided horse rides, and kayaking. Boasting family rooms, CasaMolle villa also provides guests in-room amenities such as bathrobes, slippers, television with DirectTV, WiFi, hair dryer, minibar, and security box.

Meat, fish, seafood, homemade pasta, salads and regional wines, are some of the wonderful dishes, which you will find in Los Hornitos del Molle. Offering authentic chilean and vegetarian friendly cuisines.

La delfina restaurant offers a quirky and relaxed environment for families/couples to dine in, whether it be for an afternoon coffee or lunch/dinner. The restaurant offers its guests authentic, chilean cuisines whilst offering travelers to explore the region.

Distance from CasaMolle: 8.1miles

This property provides guests with a barbecue, free bikes, meeting and banquet facilities, children’s playground,  fitness centre and bowling alley to enjoy their time within the hotel. Alternatively, there are also a wide range of activities to enjoy in the surrounding area and guided tours, which are extra provided by the hotel.

Capel distills pisco at this facility and has its only bottling plant here. Located about 2km (20-minute walk) southeast of town, this large pisco maker offers 45-minute tours of the facilities, which includes an on-site museum and a few testing samples. There’s also a mixology tour, where the distillery visit is followed by a lesson in making the perfect cocktail.

The coast of the Limarí Valley is home to one of the greatest miracles and natural mysteries of the planet: Talinay and the Fray Jorge Forest. A surprising relict forest of the austral-type glacial era, the northernmost in Chile that lives off the Camanchaca oceanic fog and resists the advance of the driest desert in the world: the Atacama. Great for day trips and exploring the surrounding regions.

Learn or excel in any of these two disciplines of great adrenaline. Puclaro Reservoir is the most important point in South America for the practice of these sports (1.2miles away from CasaMolle). Classes led by professors of great trajectory and professionalism. This includes: departure from CasaMolle to Puclaro reservoir, classes of your choice or rental of complete equipment, catering at CasaMolle and return to CasaMolle.

There is a relentless search about the ancestral, autochthonous and symbolic art of remote civilizations. At CasaMolle, Catalan visual artist Mireia Gil Jordi has focused on presenting her art considering the ancestral cultures of the area, such as the molle and the diaguita cultures, both found in the Elqui Valley. This has been captured in different spots of CasaMolle mixing different techniques such as pyrography on wooden doors, ceramic lanterns intervened with paint and reliefs, signs in clay etc.

“CasaMolle’s sustainability and earthy architecture/interior design is mainly inspired by its landscapes, environment and valley, rescuing their colors, textures and shapes to achieve mimicry and make its architecture part of the natural environment. Also, the millenary Molle culture has been source of inspiration for the hotel at the time of designing the lanterns, doors, signs and specially the amphitheater that is a replica of a Molle vessel. Inside, it is decorated with loom-woven blankets from the north of the country, torches and sheepskins and on the outside covered by grecas and handmade pieces of ceramic stoneware. All together make this great vessel a true work of art where travellers can perform endless activities such as ancestral ceremonies, rituals and wedding blessings.

The architecture of CasaMolle is a combination of constructions types such as the altiplanoes with low walls and adobe widths creating small environments within a large space as citadels, pyramidal roofs of totora, a material present in the surroundings as well as the pitch which are used for closures and boundaries and the stone used in trails and some walls. The architecture of the hotel was based mainly on rescuing the existing resources in the place such as totora, pitch, stone, maicillo and adobe, considering the climatic conditions and making the most of its rich soils by creating orchards and diverse gardens with an endless native species, cactus and succulent fruit trees ,hence, achieving an identity with its environment. In the interior design of CasaMolle, noble and simple materials such as wood and wicker with organic textures such as linen, cotton and sisales in a range of earth and pastel colors are used, truly connecting the hotel to its roots.”