Every Corner is a Picture

This hotel feels more like a home (if your home were designed by Pierre Yovanovitch and comes with its own vineyard), tucked away in the terraced hills of the Douro Valley.

The trip had been years in the making. Teenagers use the Internet for finding pornography, while the middle-aged part of the population look for hotels and summer houses. One evening, I had been looking at hotels in Portugal, for no other reason than being curious, when suddenly I saw a photo of an unusual reception area; the painted wooden beams were in contrast with the monochromatic ceiling, the room decorated with a mix of design classics and unknown pieces.

Without knowing anything about the property, I felt that it immediately resonated with me.

As it’s one of the Douro Valley’s smaller wine estates, finding it is not the easiest, its entrance (leading steeply down a hill) in the outskirts of Tabuaço slightly hidden. To get here, you drive along part of the N222. But the location is more central than it lets on, as it’s just three kilometres away from Pinhão.