Quinta da Palmeira

Eight rooms tucked into the hills between Porto and Lisbon, surrounded by orange trees, olive groves, and the peaks of the Serra do Açor. Quinta da Palmeira is a country house retreat in a region better known for outdoor festivals, waterfalls, and long rustic lunches that somehow turn refined. Most guests treat it as a stopover, which the countryside would like a word about, since it takes at least two days to properly slow down.