Refugio De Vila Hotel Portel - Reviews - Portel

Alentejo is considered Portugal's most authentic and picturesque region. In the Spring the Alentejo is carpeted in wildflowers; in the Summer, wheat, oats, and sunflowers blanket the fields; in the Autumn, grapes and olives ripen.It is in this peaceful country setting the we found Refúgio da Vila Rural Hotel and Cooking School. Located in Portel, a small town outside Évora, the hotel is a housed in a Vila manor complete with pool and patios.Between cooking lessons in a kitchen that...(see more) opens to a courtyard, and tours of the unspoiled countryside, guests relax in simple, but elegantly appointed rooms.The Suite do Paço, it’s an exclusive room of the hotel: here was the music room of the noble manor house. These walls heard secrets of love and received the most important Portuguese noble families from the 19th century in Portugal. Here we find the comfort of the modern times with an ambience from the last century... that makes each night a special night.The cuisine is mostly Mediterranean, rich in aromatic herbs, where we can taste the popular codfish, lamb, wild pork and fine traditional deserts, introduced in the medieval times by nuns.