Family Estate and Country hotel in Grândola, inmersed in a Cork Oak Forest, with the beach minutes away. Authentic for 5 generations.
Rooms
Double or Twin Standard Room
Comfortable rooms with a differentiated decoration, ideal for a restful weekend. In this type of room, you will find that each and every one of them has a private outdoor lounge where you can read or simply relax and enjoy Nature.
Double or Twin Superior Room
Being mostly situated near the pool, the superior rooms are ideal for a more prolonged stay. With a larger area, these rooms are also gifted with excellent light, inviting you to the contact with the outside world.
Junior Suite
This is a room with a privileged location, cared for decoration and soothing tones that vary with the season of the year, with the two rooms near the pool presenting the countryside as a picture from your private deck.
Studio
Designed for those looking for more privacy, autonomy and longer stays, the studios are situated in a distant zone. They have a private patio, a nice little garden and a small kitchenette.
The Herdade
The history of Herdade das Barradas da Serra goes back to completely different times, when the families who worked here lived in the countryside and took care of small plots of land, where they had their cattle, their gardens and their olive groves and orchards and where agriculture played a central role.
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Attractions
Cais Palatifico da Carrasqueira
The Palafítico da Carrasqueira Pier is one of the most visited places in the municipality. This masterpiece of popular architecture, erected in the 1950s and 1960s, is unique in Europe and is built on irregular, apparently fragile wooden piles that serve as a wharf for the fishing boats that dock there. A tourist attraction, the wharf still fulfils the mission for which it was built: to allow fishermen access to the boats, even during low tide.
Paia de Melides
Sand beach with a good public parking, dunes and a beautiful natural lagoon
Praia da Aberta Nova
Large and cliffy beach, an example of environmental preservation, awared consecutively with the Golden Beach Recognition.
Praia do Pego
Praia do Pego is one of the most beautiful beaches in the area, and one of the most equipped in terms of services and accessibility. It has two restaurants and a beach bar, sunbed umbrella rental, a surf school and covered parking (paid).
Alcácer do Sal
Alcácer do Sal is a small city on the shore of the Sado river. With traditional architecture, it is particularly nice to take a walk on the main street, facing the river, during sunset, and have an early dinner at one of the terrace restaurants. A special kind of shrimp, very little in size, is the go to "tapa" in Alcácer.
Adega da Comporta
Beautiful winery, inserted between the estuary of the Sado River, the village of Comporta, the rice fields and the sea.
You can book wine tastings in advance and purchase wine directly in the winery store.
Praia do Carvalhal
Amazing dune beach with views to the Serra of Arrabida, equipped with two restaurants, surf school and covered parking lot (paid).
Roman Ruins of Troia
Discover the Acala island, as it was known in the days of Ancient Rome. A few minutes from Troia’s central area, travel back in time to the ruins of the largest center of fish-salting industry known from the Roman Empire, occupied until the 6th century. Wander among ruins of factories, tombs and tubs for hot and cold baths. New vestiges are being discovered every year, which you can see in the archaeological exhibitions, guided visits and thematic events. When you take a break from the beach, golfing or the marina, get a sense of Troia’s past and the history that shaped this area over time.
Dolphin watching - Vertigem Azul
Vertigem Azul is a company that organizes boat tours on the River Sado, mainly focused on dolphin watching, with a great environmental conscience. It's an amazing experience that we strongly recommend. The tours start from the Troia marina, and tickets can be purchased there.
Centro de Ciência Viva das Minas do Lousal
The Lousal mine, located in Grândola, had its extractive activity, between 1900 and 1988, mainly dedicated to the exploitation of pyrite for the use of sulfur, a raw material for the production of sulfuric acid used in the manufacture of fertilizers. In the late 1980s, the production of sulfuric acid from pyrite ceased to be economically viable, leading to the closure of the mine.
Following the closure of the mine, there was a accentuated decrease in the population. In order to reverse this situation, in 1994, the RELOUSAL project was born, resulting from the union of efforts between SAPEC, SA (the company that owns the mine) and the Câmara Municipal de Grândola, creating the Fundação Frédéric Velge. This entity initiated a set of initiatives aimed at exploring the museological, tourist and geoenvironmental potential of Lousal. Over more than twenty years, several buildings have been recovered and transformed in a Hotel, a Restaurant, an Industrial Archaeology Museum and a Ciência Viva Center.
Memberships, Awards, Recognitions & Certifications
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