Casas da Quinta de Cima

Former farm workers' cottages on a Portuguese agricultural estate, now nine suites with wicker ceilings, terracotta floors, and marble baths that suggest the family kept the good parts and quietly discarded the rest. Private terraces look over orange and avocado groves toward the sea. The kitchen leans on the estate's own land, and the whole atmosphere runs deliberately low-tech. Five generations of the same family did this, which might explain why it feels settled rather than styled.