Uruguayan artist Carlos PaES Vilaro spent 36 years to build a capueble – half a castle, half a sculptural composition on a secluded cape above the sea. Today it is a building in which a chic hotel is located – one of the main attractions of Uruguay.
This hotel, which has spread on the rocks, could claim the title of the most unusual in the world! It resembles the buildings of Gaudi or the white houses of the Greek Island of Santorini, however, unlike the above buildings, there is no direct line in it.
The hotel called “Castuebla” is located near the chic Uruguayan resort Punta del Este, where celebrities love to relax. It was invented and manually erected by the recently deceased Uruguayan artist Carlos PaES Vilaro. In construction, which stretched for almost four decades, only PAES Vilaro and local fishermen who lived in these once desert parts took part.
The hotel complex consists of 13 terraces located above the other. Its lower floor goes straight to the beach. The rooms do not differ in numbers, as usual, but by the symbols that Vilaro painted himself. According to him, he chose this place for the construction of the hotel because here you can enjoy magnificent sunsets. In addition to numbers, the services of guests are bar, spa and the art museum.
The creator of the Kasapueble hotel, Vilaro was a passionate traveler. He was friends with many famous people, for example with Pablo Picasso and Brigitte Bardo. He acquired the land for the construction of the hotel in 1958, and his friends and investors helped him to raise funds.
First, a warehouse of building materials appeared on the territory of the future hotel, then an art studio. Only after that, Vilaro began the construction of a building, the forms of which, as the artist himself admitted, were inspired by him by “Mediterranean architecture, confectionery and forms of the female body.”
He covered the walls of the building with a cement and manually gave them the most bizarre forms. In addition, Vilaro created many niches and decorative windows in the walls, where he placed numerous art objects – mainly souvenirs brought from numerous travels. He turned the building into a storage of his memories.
A snow-white-white coloring building stands out brightly against the background of the sky and the sea, and the interweaving of towers, corridors, tunnels and underground passages turns the building into a fabulous labyrinth. The building houses not only a few bars, but also the kitchen accessible to guests. In addition, there are niches outside the building, where it is convenient to nest birds, so guests will be able to enjoy the lives of bird families nearby.
PAES Vilaro said that this building was “saturated with the energy of those who lived here, and whom the architecture of the building forced to survive many unforgettable moments.” The artist himself lived here the rest of days before his death in 2014 at the age of 90. After Vilaro left this world, his relatives decided in memory of him to open a magnificent house for the public. The hotel-museum is controlled by the second wife of Vilaro.
The hotel offers guests a choice of 72 apartments of different areas on different floors. The Vilaro Museum, located in the building of the complex, can visit any person, and not just a hotel guest. The museum works from 10 a.m. to sunset, when the “Solar Ceremony” passes here – an artistic action accompanied by Vilaro's voice: the leading ceremonies include a record on which the artist reads his poems about the Sun.
Carlos PaES Vilaro lived with his second wife Annet for many years. They have six children, the eldest of which, Karlito Paes, became the hero of the world news in 1972: he turned out to be one of the 16 survivors after the crash of the aircraft in the Andes, who managed to live 72 days in the mountains in anticipation of help.
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