The great architect

The mountain rises majestically beside Valle de Bravo’s lake. Two millions of square meters and 400 meters on high confine over 90 millions of history years. At El Santuario, passing through reception, on the left hand, a wooden bridge guides to water pond, from where you can watch over the waterfall with more than 50 meters high. There is water everywhere; at the front, the great windows allow to see the lake and the zone named El Escondrijo.

Michel Domit: Money is only a mean to change the world

At right side, the path twists through hotel rooms and the wooden stairs. At the back, naked rock shows its great quartz veins coming from graphite.

Meditation is an essential part of daily life of Michel and his team: architects, managers, SPA members, engineers. Everyone talk about the sessions at moonlight under the stars, and how every idea to build and design El Santuario comes from these meetings.

A very special bidding

In 1989 the Grupo Domit passed through a bad financial moment. They offered Michel the mountain where today is El Santuario, but he declined the proposal. However, at that nights´ meditation, his father, who died when he has 12 years old, told him not only that he should buy it, but that his life mission would be to transform it in an international example of connivance between men and environment.
“He told me that its name should be El Santuario, a place where square meter should be more expensive than surroundings and people would pay. That way, everyone who internationally makes business with land would understand that we have to stop chopping it; they would throw away the old merchandising scheme and would start to preserve it in big extensions”.

This project’s architect has been the spirit of the Pacha Mama, the mother earth. Each meditation we ask the mountain what she wants us to do

Don Antonio Domit told his son all the project’s characteristics; a settlement where 85% of the land should be an ecologic reserve and only 15% would dedicate to build and business. Madness from economic point of view, but his father asked him to trust and Michel accepted the bidding, despite financial difficulties he was breaking through.

“From there several little miracles happened”, recall moved.

The shape maker

At past century’s beginning, don Antonio Domit left a little Lebanese town embedded in a mountain, searching new horizons. Arrived at México with only 20 years old, having no money and speaking no Spanish. At 1927 had open his first shoe making workshop with his brothers. Step by step, with a lot of work and devotion, the workshop keeps growing, until 1942 when they opened the first factory.

“My father greatly enjoyed his calling. When I was a kid, got into his office and found him with his feet over the desk and happy making with a piece of wood, a shoe shape. His shapes were so good that they were knew as molded skin and were half a century in the market”

Paradoxically, Michel has to get in charge of his father legacy when he was 20 years old and with great sorrow left behind his starting career as filmmaker to devote him self to family business.

“I had to take mi obligation and rescue the company. I did not want to be businessman, but ended being one”. Now he is a unique businessman: breakthrough paradigms in business making them work without forget his spiritual position.