Study Spanish in a tiny oceanside village where English isn't spoken.
Improve your skills in a non-English-speaking environment.
Enjoy our comfortable housing, eat on the beach in the small restaurant huts run by our friends, and speak Spanish all day long.
The Villa Rica branch is for intermediate and advanced students.
Our Villa Rica branch is small and will be kept small. To maximize your immersion, we cap the campus at four students (or a few larger for a family group).
In addition to enjoying the ocean, visit the quebradas (deep breaks with vertical rock wall opened into the volcanic hillside), Quiahuiztlan and Cempoala archaeological ruins, surrounding villages, and near-by lagoons with mangrove passages and alligators. Take nature tours and go birding in the many environments close to the shore.
Your weekend travel, if you choose to travel, can be to Xalapa, the Port of Veracruz, the major archaeological site at El Tajin, or even the great pyramids at Teotihuacan.
It's fine to combine a week at our Villa Rica branch with a stay at our main facility in the Port of Veracruz.
Please email us for full information and pricing.
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A pole for hanging nets for repairs and shelters along the beach 
The trail back down from the volcanic hill to the beacht
Proud owners of a beachside restaurant who are always happy to relax and chat with you in Spanish
A view from the dunes near the end of the beach and looking toward the hillside with the "gravesite" ruins 
One of the quebradas, the vertical cuts into the rock walls of the volcanic hill into which the ocean crashes
The bus stop along the coastal highway and the taxi stand 
Surf looking South along the Villa Rica beach.
Restaurant serving delicious seafood at the edge of the surf in the isolated village of Villa Rica
Looking from the beach across the palms with the setting of the Quiahuiztlan ruinsin the background
The view down between the vertical rock walls of a quebrada, a break.
The formal dining area where you can enjoy freshly caught seafood in a Villa Rica restaurant.
The trail across the brushy growth atop the volcanic hill bordering Villa Rica on the beach's north edge.
In this most rustic and isolated village lies this modern and well appointed coupound where our students are housed.
Looking out to the island that Cortez slid past making his first landfall in Mexico
The view looking north to the volcanic hill at the end of Villa Rica's beach