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As Portugal's Algarve Coast Goes High-Luxe, These Rural Farm Estates Are Refreshing Alternative

Condé Nast Traveler·Christine Chitnis·about 1 month ago
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The road to Quinta do Pinheiro winds through orchards and open pastures along Portugal ’s southern coast, narrowing to little more than a dusty track. Between rows of pomegranate and fig trees, the Atlantic shimmering beyond, an immaculate whitewashed farmhouse comes into view. Across the Algarve, scenes like this are becoming a familiar prelude to a new kind of hotel. São Lourenço do Barrocal is an elegantly restored 19th-century farmstead in the Alentejo countryside. Jorge Vieira A landscape of olive groves, vineyards, and vegetable gardens supplies the food at São Lourenço do Barrocal. Ash James Portugal’s tourism boom over the past decade has brought a wave of glossy resorts and chain hotels to the country, particularly along the Algarve coast. Long a seaside escape for locals and Northern Europeans, the Algarve has become increasingly popular with Americans. Projects like Quinta do Pinheiro speak to a very different movement: the revival of Portugal’s rural farm estates as characterful boutique hotels.…

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