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La Paz (Bolivia) aerial view

La Paz (Bolivia), Bolivia

Strung along a deep canyon beneath the snowy triple summit of Illimani, La Paz is the world's highest seat of government and one of South America's most striking cities. Cable cars glide over colonial churches, the stalls of the Witches' Market and the leafy Zona Sur, where design hotels and celebrated Andean kitchens now set the pace.

Atix Hotel

Bolivia's first Design Hotels member, a glass-and-stone tower in Calacoto with more than 100 works by Gastón Ugalde, a rooftop bar and the creative Bolivian cooking of Proyecto Nativa.

Casa Grande Hotel

A contemporary five-star hotel in Calacoto with a glass atrium and interior gardens, a heated indoor pool, saunas and a rooftop bar looking across La Paz's Zona Sur.

Hotel Europa

A long-established five-star hotel in downtown La Paz, steps from El Prado and the national archaeology museum, with an indoor heated pool, sauna, spa treatments and two restaurants.

Hotel Presidente

A five-star landmark of downtown La Paz on Calle Potosí, one block from San Francisco church, with 103 soundproofed rooms, La Kantuta restaurant and a fourth-floor club with heated pool and sauna.

Stannum Boutique Hotel & Spa

A contemporary boutique hotel on Avenida Arce, with 40 rooms facing the mountains or the city, a 12th-floor bar, a full spa and the white cable-car line at its door.

La Casona Hotel Boutique

A colonial-style boutique hotel on La Paz's main avenue beside the Basilica of San Francisco, steps from the Witches' Market, with a restaurant and café, a bar and a garden lounge.