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Rosa Barba Transforms Lisbon’s CAM Into an Immersive Cinematic Landscape

Greg Boegner — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:27:23 +0000

From May 16 through September 28, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian presents Drawing Vocabularies, the first solo exhibition in Portugal by acclaimed Italian artist and filmmaker Rosa Barba. Photo at top: Hear, There, Where the Echoes Are, 2016–2021, Drums, projectors, glass panels, screens, Installation view at MoMA PS1, New York, 2016 | Photo: Charles Roussel © Rosa Barba Occupying the soaring central Nave of the museum, the exhibition brings together around twenty works — including […]

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Casa Palmela Boutique Hotel in Arrábida Natural Park

Ann Abel — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:53:56 +0000

Less than an hour from Lisbon, Casa Palmela is both a throwback in Portuguese history and a deep immersion into nature. The boutique hotel in the heart of the Arrábida Natural Park occupies a 17th-century manor house that was turned into a family home before finally being opened to the public, and the cousins who own and manage it are eager to share childhood memories of the time growing up there. Even if you don’t get a chance to speak […]

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Pa.te.os Houses for a Tranquil Getaway near Melides

Ann Abel — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 11:18:45 +0000

As so many dreamy small hotels do, Pa.te.os began as a vacation property purchased with the idea of creating a country home and welcoming friends. But as owners Sofia and Miguel Charters fell more and more in love with the land they had bought near Melides, they decided they wanted to share it with the world. And so they brought in noted Portuguese architect Manuel Aires Mateus to design a compact collection of four vacation homes surrounded by the nature […]

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Casa Baio – Modern, Serene Bed & Breakfast in Alentejo

Greg Boegner — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 21:30:35 +0000

A relaxing retreat, by every sense of the term. Casa Baio Bed and Breakfast, in the north of Portugal’s Alentejo region, is that complete escape that you’ve been telling yourself you need. Sitting in the middle of 70 hectares of rolling hills, there is not a single glimpse of civilization in sight. The silence is noticeable, only interrupted by an occasional sheep making its way past your window. It is much needed medicine for the urban life that ails you. […]

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Herdade da Matinha Country House, Alentejo

Ann Abel — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 10:54:32 +0000

The Alentejo country house hotel Herdade da Matinha doesn’t fit the traditional definitions of luxury. It doesn’t have manicured gardens or gleaming surfaces. Rather, it has the realest of all luxuries: deep nature and silence. The family-owned property extends over 110 hectares of cork oak and umbrella fine—much of which the owner regenerated himself when he began the hospitality project, back in the 1990s—which are filled with wildflowers and birdsong. The centerpiece, is the original family house, which dates from […]

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Herdade da Malhadinha Nova Private Farmhouse

Ann Abel — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:13:25 +0000

If there was ever a year to disappear into a private farmhouse in the middle of nowhere in the lower Alentejo, 2020 is it. And if there was ever a place to find that private farmhouse, the newly expanded Herdade da Malhadinha Nova is it. Although the original elements of the place—a single farmhouse with a handful of bedrooms—opened in 2009, this incarnation is in a category of its own. And in some ways, it seems to have been designed […]

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São Lourenço do Barrocal

Ann Abel — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 16:27:44 +0000

There’s an otherworldly feeling to São Lourenço do Barrocal, in the heart of the Alentejo, is one of the region’s most gorgeous farmhouse hotels. It’s also the most historical, as much of the farm dates from 1820, and there are some Roman vestiges and a megalithic menhir (standing stone) here and there. A loving and complicated restoration turned the estate, which was once a working and self-sustaining farm, with 50 families living on the property, which functioned almost as a […]

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Alentejo Marmòris Hotel & Spa in Vila Viçosa

Ann Abel — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:22:25 +0000

The northeastern edge of the Alentejo isn’t on most people’s radar. There’s no sea, of course, and there’s not all that much going on. But what little is going on there is, in fact, rather interesting. The sleepy town of Vila Viçosa, just a few kilometers from the Spanish border (and 60km from Évora), is a center of marble production, which makes for some interesting sites—quarries, marble dealerships along the road—and one of Portugal’s most endearingly eccentric luxury hotels, the […]

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