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UXUA Casa Hotel & Spa
Trancoso, Brazil, South America
Authenticity is assured at Uxua Casa Hotel & Spa Brazil's picturesque and historic Bahia state can offer. And no place delivers the experience like Trancoso's Quadrado, its car-free, Unesco-protected town square.
Bouteco loves: Restored by designer Wilbert Das alongside local artisans and reclaimed materials, half of Uxua's casas date back 500 years. Full throttle with the fashion industry left him wanting a project where he felt he was investing in something permanent and meaningful and his vacation home evolved into UXUA. One by one, a few humble adobe cottages off the grassy car-free Quadrado were remodeled as part of the hotel’s barefoot-chic boutique lodgings. Amid crowing roosters and chattering ‘nativos’ – the badge-of-honour term for true locals – this rustic-deluxe retreat is a life-enriching part of the community.