{"type":"city","city":"Pérez Zeledón","citySlug":"perez-zeledon","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/costa-rica/perez-zeledon","description":"Pérez Zeledón sits in the General Valley of southern Costa Rica, where the Talamanca mountain range rises sharply enough to make every sight line feel earned. This is not a city that announces itself through architecture — the town center is functional, agricultural, shaped more by the rhythms of coffee and cattle than by any civic design ambition. What draws a particular kind of traveler here is exactly that absence of performance: the landscape is doing all the work, and the built environment knows to step back.\n\nThe Talamanca foothills that frame the valley are where the most considered hospitality in this region has taken root. Hacienda AltaGracia, operated under the Auberge Resorts Collection, occupies a 350-acre working farm at elevation, and the property makes its position in the landscape the central fact of the experience. The architecture draws from vernacular Costa Rican ranch traditions, working with local stone, open timber structures, and long horizontal forms that follow the terrain rather than imposing on it. There is a genuine attempt here to root the property in place, not just in the sense of views and breezes, but materially and historically — AltaGracia was a functioning cattle and coffee operation before its conversion, and that agricultural past is worn visibly in the bones of the buildings. The equestrian program, the working fields, the proximity to indigenous Boruca and Bribri territories all register as more than amenity. They read as context.\n\nFor someone whose instinct is to understand a place through its physical fabric, Pérez Zeledón offers something that few resort destinations in Central America can: a sense that the sophistication is arriving slowly, from within the land rather than being dropped onto it from outside. AltaGracia is expensive, and unapologetically so, but what the price is buying is access to a Costa Rican ecosystem that has not been rationalized into postcard familiarity. The Savegre River watershed, the cloud forest edges, the steep agricultural plots that climb toward the páramo — these are the surroundings the property is built to connect its guests with. If that kind of immersive specificity sounds like a reason to go, it is. If you need the city of Pérez Zeledón itself to carry design interest, it will not oblige.","provider":{"name":"PressBeyond","url":"https://pressbeyond.com","description":"PressBeyond provides AI-optimized hotel content with a consistent 5-image structure across its entire portfolio. Each image sequence includes strong lighting, complete room-visibility angles, and strictly non-duplicative scenes — enabling AI to accurately describe and recommend properties to travelers.","curationStandard":"PressBeyond Hotel Photography Standard"},"hotels":[{"name":"Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/costa-rica/perez-zeledon/hacienda-altagracia-auberge-resorts-collection","city":"Pérez Zeledón","cityHeader":"Pérez Zeledón • Talamanca Foothills • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Talamanca Foothills","designSummary":"High in the Talamanca foothills above Pérez Zeledón, where cloud forest gives way to working coffee and sugarcane plantations, Hacienda AltaGracia was developed by Auberge Resorts Collection on land that carries genuine agricultural history — the name itself signals the hacienda typology the property draws from, low-slung terracotta-roofed pavilions dispersed across rolling terrain rather than concentrated into a single resort block. The entrance sequence makes the ambition clear: a tiered stone fountain, brick-paved drives edged with hydrangeas, and clipped hedges terracing the hillside in a manner closer to a private Central American estate than a managed resort. Fifty casitas spread across the property's considerable acreage, each positioned to borrow mountain views through floor-to-ceiling glazed walls framed in dark-stained timber.\n\nThe interiors, refreshed under Auberge's ownership, balance colonial craft references with a cleaner contemporary hand. Four-poster beds hung with linen canopies anchor each room, paired with flat-weave kilim-style rugs in indigo and sand, leather campaign stools, and turned-wood bedside lamps in sculptural organic forms. Teak ceiling planks and ceiling fans maintain the plantation register without tipping into pastiche. The restaurant brings the most theatrical gesture: woven fiber pendant lights, their forms somewhere between bird's nest and sea urchin, suspended above polished concrete floors and dark timber wishbone chairs, with a living plant wall dividing the dining room and expressionist canvas paintings adding saturated color to an otherwise warm, neutral interior.","snippet":"Fifty casitas on a working coffee estate in Costa Rica's Talamanca foothills, with colonial-contemporary interiors.","bestFor":"Collectors and aesthetes seeking Central American retreat","vibe":"Agrarian-refined · secluded","highlights":["Fifty casitas dispersed across working coffee plantations","Interiors blend colonial craft with contemporary minimalism","Restaurant features woven fiber pendants and living plant wall"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$1,971","pricePerNightExclTax":"$1,971","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyii203sk15u78uz8ocoy1713352297797_a10a92b9-69e7-494a-a3df-85352c81f839.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyodo04ui15u7s0wdx2121713352297186_0d20a46e-efec-44b8-b49f-126fa5497bc5.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyu3d05wh15u7fdiq9qpu1713352299313_62dbeedc-063d-484c-950e-7f0db6dae8bb.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyzyi06yf15u76394avc51713352300187_a6f0ed17-7116-4f19-b87c-7a02d017be5c.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tz5r6080d15u7zy8py0ie1713352300790_d72246f4-4f9c-4a23-b0d5-957f6db552bf.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]}]}