Built in 1576 the Santa Catalina Convent in Oaxaca has been carefully converted into the Camino Real.

While a luxury hotel, Camino Real also manages to retain an authentic colonial style both in the rooms and around the Spanish Baroque courtyards. Walk down the long tiled corridors with their fading original frescoes or relax in the patios, one of which is called Los Lavaderos (the laundry) and has a large, carved, stone basin in the centre where the Dominican sisters of the convent used to wash their clothes.

Camino Real is centrally located with well equipped rooms, all with air-conditioning, and is the ideal place to stay and to explore one of the prettiest and most colourful towns in Mexico.