The Best Hotels Near Herdade da Malhadinha Nova, by the Record
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A whitewashed 22-room wine estate in the Alentejo, where the minimalist rooms could pass for Copenhagen until you notice the vineyards pressing up against every window. The owner bought 200-plus acres and reshaped the whole thing with sustainability in mind, which sounds like a press release until you're actually on a bike threading through the vines. Three restaurants, serious wine tasting, and a pool for staring at the cork oaks. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.
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A pair of New Yorkers found a forested hillside near the Costa Vicentina coast and, unlike most people with a dream property, opened the gates. Quinta Camarena is a sustainability-focused boutique hotel built across terraced country houses connected by steep trails, with rooms ranging from light-filled suites in the main house to duplexes hidden in the trees above. The pitch is wellness without the earnestness: yoga and green juice, then convivial dinners with free-flowing wine.
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A family-run country house in the Alentejo where the orange juice is squeezed from trees in the garden minutes before it reaches you, which tells you everything about how seriously they take mornings here. Rooms are simple and sunny, each hung with an original painting by one of the owners. Horses take you into the hills or down to the beach. It's the kind of place that makes eating, riding, and doing absolutely nothing feel like a full itinerary.
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Four concrete houses by architect Manuel Aires Mateus sit just inland from the Alentejo coast, their glass walls retracting fully so the bedroom and the courtyard become one room. The name is a pun on the Portuguese word for patios, which tells you everything about the philosophy. There's no lobby, no common spaces to perform leisure in, just an infinity pool and a breakfast tray if you want one. A place to stay built entirely around the premise that silence is the amenity.