Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala

Casa Palopó

A painted house on Lake Atitlán, at kilometre 6.8, with the volcanoes across the water.

Our read

What stood out was the blue and yellow house from the air, a woman walking the pool edge under Tolimán, and a room where a woven textile hangs on a blue wall. The lake is the view. The colour is the town.

Come here for

Lake Atitlán, from one house on the slope
A table at the water and a room above it

Skip it if

You want the town of Antigua
You want a beach

We’d rather send you somewhere else than send you somewhere that doesn’t suit you.

From the property

Inside Casa Palopó

Filmed at the property. Tap to play.

01 - Arrive

The place itself

Casa Palopó is at Carretera a San Antonio Palopó km 6.8, Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala. The site prints the telephone +502 7762 2270 and the desk recepcion@casapalopo.com. Book on casapalopo.com. They describe the house where the painted facades of the town meet the lake, with Tolimán, Atitlán, and San Pedro on the horizon. They say it is the first Relais & Châteaux in Guatemala. The photographs are the house from the air, tiled roofs in blue and yellow, a woman walking the pool edge with the two volcanoes behind her, a room with a blue wall and a woven textile, the yellow dining room of Palopó 6.8, a clay cup passed between two people, and a turquoise room with a carved wooden headboard. They publish a film of the lake and the rooms. They name two tables: Kinnik, at the water, and Palopó 6.8. The villa sits above the house.

02 - Feel

Why it is different

Kilometre 6.8

Carretera a San Antonio Palopó, Santa Catarina Palopó, with the volcanoes across the lake.

The pool edge

One frame is a woman walking the rim, with Tolimán and Atitlán behind her.

Two tables

They name Kinnik at the water and Palopó 6.8 in the house.

One desk

recepcion@casapalopo.com and +502 7762 2270.

03 · Live here

How the days go

01
Arrive
Carretera a San Antonio Palopó, Santa Catarina Palopó, with the volcanoes across the lake.
02
Feel
What stood out was the blue and yellow house from the air, a woman walking the pool edge under Tolimán, and a room where a woven textile hangs on a blue wall. The lake is the view. The colour is the town.
03
Live here
One frame is a woman walking the rim, with Tolimán and Atitlán behind her.
04
Stay
A room at Casa Palopó.
05
Go
recepcion@casapalopo.com and +502 7762 2270.