Quinta da Luz

✩✩✩Enjoy our ever changing mountain view, need some peace and calm? Desire to write your book, take some stunning photographs, cycle or walk in the countryside or across the highest mountain in Portugal? Enjoy watching the moon rise over the Serra da Estrela and the stars in the sky?

✩✩✩Or simply rejuvenate yourself through its healing energy. Quinta da Luz has luxury accommodation where you can enjoy all of these and more.

✩✩✩Take breakfast on the terrace before setting off to explore the local Nature and history or wander around the garden. Rejuvenate yourself through one of our retreats or create your own. Quinta da Luz has an unique presence where visitors often stay for longer than planned due to its calm, peaceful energy of wellbeing.

✩✩✩Our beautiful home is a renovated granite house with its original forester watch tower. Two bedrooms have en-suite bathrooms with extra large beds, one room with two single beds and one with a single. The three bedrooms and separate bathroom on the ground floor are along a private corridor.

✩✩✩Enjoy wandering in the serenity of our garden, sitting by its ponds and taking in the breathtaking scenery. Watch the night sky, you can even see the Milky Way!

✩✩✩Our space is idyllic for creative and artistic people as well as those seeking tranquillity and inspiration. We also operate a retreat centre for those seeking to recharge their batteries, to escape from city life and also for those who are on their spiritual journey. There is a garden room used for yoga, meditation and workshops, or perhaps even your sketching and photography! Our visitors are very welcome to use this space freely.

✩✩✩Various modalities such as energy work and massage are available during your stay, there is also a house guitar should you feel the need to strum or drum..

✩✩✩A yoga teacher visits every Friday afternoon and visitors are welcome to join us and others who enjoy the session.

✩✩✩We welcome guests on arrival. We take pleasure in settling them into our home and showing them around the Quinta. There are maps and local information on places to visit. If you have any dietary requirements please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.

✩✩✩We are vegetarians ourselves eating whenever possible our own fruit, vegetables and nuts. If required you can join our evening meal at an additional cost.

✩✩✩You will find the Quinta is 500 mts down a rural track and is car and tractor accessible. If you wish to swim there are various river beaches nearby and a lake in the mountain about 45 minutes drive away. The nearest beach is Aveiro which is about 1.5 hours drive.

✩✩✩We have a Quinta cat who spends most of her time outside, especially in summer - the bedrooms are off limit to her! If you have cat allergies please mention them to us. We request that no dogs are invited.

✩✩✩Guest Access

You will be able to access the living room where we enjoy breakfast when not taken outside. In the tower we have our library where guests may sit and read books during their stay. There is a seating area leading to three of the guest bedrooms and kitchen, used more in winter when the wood burner is lit!

The granite walls keep an equable temperature through the year, so allowing all to just sit and enjoy the ever changing Serra da Estrela mountain range.

Whether you wish to be inside or sit on the terrace listening to the evening noises of the crickets and frogs, watching the twinkling stars, or find one of the 17 benches in the garden where you can just be a peace with Nature.

✩✩✩Interaction with Guests

We will be on site during your stay, to help guide you around the hectare (2.5 acres) of the Quinta and point out local sites and places of interest.

We operate a very non intrusive and empathetic home, respecting the privacy of all guests.