São Lourenço do Barrocal is a luxury hotel located near Monsaraz, and very close to Alqueva. The estate covers 780 hectares and has been in the same family for over 200 years, but its origins date back to the Neolithic period. It was also a place of work and housed more than 50 families. The hotel is the result of a project to restore the estate, designed by the award-winning architect Souto de Moura, which aimed at maintaining the rural and traditional concept, adapted to the new functions. São Lourenço do Barrocal comprises a cellar for the creation of exclusive …

The Aveiro Museum (also known as the Santa Joana Museum) is housed in the former Convent of Jesus, founded in 1464 by Dom Brites Leitoa. During the late 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, it underwent numerous interventions, from the construction of the cloister and of the tomb of Santa Joana, as well as the gilded carvings and historic tiles of the chancel and church body. By virtue of the Decree dated 1834 (extinction of the religious Orders) the convent is extinguished, and it starts to function as a college until 1910. In 1911 it is becames a Museum. It undergoes …

The parish church of Curros, dedicated to our Lady of the snows, is deployed south of the village of Curros, away from housing cluster, flanked by a forecourt enclosed by a granite wall, where you will find the cemetery. Is a granite building of rectangular plant oriented Northeast\/Southwest. The main façade, with a porch, has a round arch portal, ends in Gable, with cornice, crowned by a Latin cross about acroterion. Inside this church, the floor is paved with granite slabs, old graves, some of which numbered or registered brands. Has three gilded altars: the main altar, decorated with painted …

This mountain range is located between the Açor and Sicó mountains, southwest of Coimbra, on the border with the district of Leiria. It measures 30 kilometers long and 30 kilometers wide, reaching its highest point of about 1,000 meters at Alto do Trevim. It is a mountain range deeply furrowed by a branching network of valleys and steep slopes on its northwestern edge. It boasts a rich fauna and flora, boasting a wide variety of botanicals, and even some watercourses, the famous Lousã river pool. Along the mountain range, trails lead us to villages frozen in time, populated by schist …

O restaurante Casa de Cancelo, em Fafe, está integrado no complexo turístico Rilhadas. Esta casa de traça tipicamente minhota, recuperada e transformada, foi transformada num espaço multi-funcional, com valência de restaurante, bar e club house. O ambiente íntimo e acolhedor alia a origem rústica com a elegância do seu interior. Vitela assada à moda de Fafe ou com arroz de bucho, o cabrito assado em forno a lenha, o arroz pica-no-chão (cabidela), bem como os bolos com sardinhas ou com rojões são algumas das opções que fazem parte de uma carta que evidencia os sabores regionais. Os jantares são servidos …

A gozar de muita luz e vistas sobre a cidade, virado ao rio ao à autenticidade dos seus edifícios tradicionais, o The House Ribeira Hotel, instalado num prédio totalmente remodelado, apresenta-se em tons claros e leves para uma estadia descontraída bem no coração turístico da cidade. A localização uma mais-valia: debruçado sobre a Ribeira, a dois passos do Palácio da Bolsa, Mercado Ferreira Borges e bem perto de diversas atrações do Porto este é um hotel informal e descontraído. Conta com 56 quartos distribuídos por 6 pisos, 11 dos quais premium, 8 twins, um adaptado e dois penthouses com uma …

Um país imenso como a China não tem apenas uma gastronomia, mas várias. Uma delas é a da província de Sichuan, um dos últimos bastiões dos tradicionais sabores chineses. Conhecida pelos pratos picantes, a gastronomia desta região é considerada a mais explosiva da China. Muito procurado por cidadãos e descendentes chineses, o The Old House tem uma equipa de cozinheiros vindos diretamente de Sichuan, mestres no uso dos sabores autênticos da região: amendoim, gengibre, cebola e malagueta, muita malagueta! 95% dos pratos do menu são originais de Sichuan, mas há espaço para algumas sugestões mais conhecidas da maioria das pessoas, …

Away from the beaches, but not deprived of sea, lies in a beautiful townhouse, with its exterior adorned with Bougainvilleas, remembering the houses in Tuscany. The interior is inhabited by the excellence of the cuisine chef Henrique Brazilian Laws, ever since I came to Portugal quickly became acquainted with the products of the region, merged them with French techniques, and created art. Still in its interior, divided into two rooms, has a winter room, with warm colours and a fireplace to give charm and, of course, heat, and a summer room, with brighter colors, stretching up to the fantastic balcony …

This is an area located north of the serra do Larouco intermediate basin of the River, Rooms in Galicia (Spain), in the current province of Ourense which borders Tourém. His institution was connected, since the late Middle Ages, the castle of Piconha, and later to the House of Braganza. With an area of approximately 27 km2, had an organization itself and was not connected or Portugal or Spain. Its inhabitants had the privilege of being able to give asylum to the escapees of Portuguese or Spanish justice, to provide soldiers for a Kingdom or the other, not to pay taxes, …

As Casas do Pátio – Country Houses & Nature localizam-se na aldeia termal das Caldas da Felgueira, em Viseu. Lídia e Catarina, as duas irmãs responsáveis pelo projeto não escondem a felicidade de sentir que aqui, nas quatro simpáticas casas de pedra modernamente recuperadas e unidas por um pátio interior, os hóspedes se sentem de tal forma em casa que relaxam por completo. Talvez até demais. Os terraços panorâmicos com camas de dossel são local de culto ao final da tarde, quando o pôr-do-sol pinta a paisagem de cores quentes, mas a passagem pela sala de estar, na casa principal, …