Whitewashed Alentejo house beyond an open gate and mature olive trees

Um monte entre Estremoz e Vila Viçosa

A house among
the olives.

Eighteen rooms gathered around an old press, a shaded courtyard, and the long Alentejo day.

First light07:20

The house · 08:05

The gate is open.
Your key is waiting.

There is no reception counter. Come through the timber doors; someone from the house will meet you by name.

Rooms: 18
Estate: 40 hectares
From Lisbon: 1 hr 45

Oak host desk beneath a board of eighteen room keys, with a host setting the breakfast table through the open courtyard door — The host’s desk, beneath the room-key board

The old lagar

“The press stopped turning in 1964. The table has been set here ever since.”

The original millstone remains in the dining room, cool beneath bare feet.

The rooms · 09:10

Private houses,
held within one.

Each room follows the old walls. No two windows meet the morning in quite the same way.

Former family apartment with an antique king bed, private salon, and windows across the olive grove — Residência do OlivalThe old family rooms, overlooking the grove

Antique carved bed in a limewashed room opening to a private terrace and the eastern olive grove

Quarto do Nascente

King bed · eastern light · private terrace

Twin antique beds in a shaded family room opening directly onto the tiled courtyard

Casa do Pátio

Two double beds · family room · courtyard door

Hand-carved limestone bath, antique washstand, brass fittings, and an arched stone shower

Water and stone

Baths cut from the same pale stone as the old press.

Deep tubs, warm brass, and linen dried in the courtyard. The water is warmed by the Alentejo sun.

Host arranging a generous breakfast table in the shaded courtyard

The table · 10:15

Bread arrives warm.

The oil was pressed beyond the eastern wall. Breakfast waits beneath the trees until the last cup is finished.

Hands placing a loaf among ceramics, fruit, olive oil, and linen

The courtyard · 11:30

White walls.
Moving shade.

The retained fountain is fed from the old estate cistern. Its tile is the only pattern the courtyard needs.

Wide view of the whitewashed courtyard with fountain, olive trees, table, and shade sail

View through a shaded doorway toward the courtyard fountain

Weathered courtyard fountain with restrained geometric tile — Stone, water, retained tile

Lagar do Sol in the distance across mature olive and cork trees

Beyond the walls · 15:20

Forty hectares
of working land.

Olive, cork oak, dry grass, and the long horizon between Estremoz and Vila Viçosa.

The water · 16:15

By four, the olives begin to shade the stone.

Narrow stone pool, two linen-covered loungers, and the olive estate in afternoon light

Wide view of the quiet pool set directly within the olive grove — The pool, looking back toward the monte

The cook finishing a dish with herbs in the estate kitchen

From the kitchen

Nothing travels farther than it needs to.

Herbs come through the courtyard door. Bread is baked before the rooms wake. Dinner follows what the garden and neighboring farms bring that morning.

The courtyard long table at dusk as two guests move into the warmly lit house

The long table19:35

Stay for the whole day

Leave after breakfast.

Eighteen rooms. Three-night weekends from April through October. Write to the house and we will arrange the rest.

A house amongthe olives.

The gate is open.Your key is waiting.