1872 River House
Eight rooms in a riverside house on Rua do Infante D. Henrique, sixty metres from São Francisco.
Eight rooms in a riverside house on Rua do Infante D. Henrique, sixty metres from São Francisco.
An abandoned chicken farm on the Silver Coast turned into fourteen rooms and a nightly bonfire.
A canary-yellow 18th-century block on Praça Luís de Camões, rebuilt by a Pritzker laureate.
Thirty-eight rooms in a family mansion on the bluff above Praia da Rocha, with two Michelin Keys.
Fifteen rooms, three villas and three tents on a Minho estate, with a bath of goat's milk in the spa.
Nine rooms in a grandparents' house on the Ria Formosa, rebuilt by the granddaughter who is an architect.
Thirty-four rooms and a villa in central Lagos, with a farm supplying the kitchen.
Twenty-six rooms in a Cascais townhouse with waterfalls, two pools and a wood-fired sauna.
An 1804 hunting lodge in the Blandy family's gardens above Funchal, Madeira's only Relais & Châteaux.
A 16th-century baroque palace above the Tâmega at Amarante, with two Michelin Keys and a starred kitchen.
Fifteen rooms inside the walls of Óbidos castle, each named for a Portuguese queen.
Eight rooms in a house held by one family since 1376, lined with French panoramic wallpapers.
Portugal's only five-star mountain hotel, a 1948 pousada rebuilt in local wool at 1,250 metres.
Six suites rebuilt in raw concrete after a fire, with texts by six writers cast into the ceilings.
Ten rooms in a timber house that appears to hover above an orange grove in the Douro Superior.
A terraced eco-guesthouse on the Sintra valley slope, with a pool looking across to the hills.
A clifftop resort on the headland above Ponta da Piedade, with coastal paths from the door.
An 1887 industrialist's folly castle with its own chapel and terraced gardens, north of the centre.
A working farm of olives, figs and oranges near the Spanish border, with thirteen places to stay.
A 15th-century convent outside Évora with its original church still standing inside the hotel.
Twelve rooms in a limestone valley, each designed around a single emotion.
A Cais do Sodré hotel built around 33 square metres of exposed 14th-century city wall.
Thirty-eight self-catering houses on a nine-hectare working farm near the Costa Vicentina.
A hilltop hotel above a bend of the Douro near Régua, with river views from every room.
Eighteen rooms in a Ribeira warehouse, one floor each for Cape Verde, India, Brazil and Macau.
Eight rooms on a hilltop olive estate, filled with the owners' Jugendstil collection and carved marble.
Fifty-six suites in a building clad entirely in cork, in an oak forest outside Évora.
Porto's first grand hotel, open since 1880, with a rooftop kitchen garden above Rua de Santa Catarina.
Twenty-three rooms in villas scattered across a thousand-acre working wine estate in Baixo Alentejo.
A working cattle estate of 365 hectares with three kilometres of Atlantic coastline in the Costa Vicentina park.
An 1892 Belle Époque hotel by the architect of Rossio station, with a private door into the platforms.
Forty-nine rooms facing the main canal of Aveiro, with themed suites and tea served in the evening.
Forty adults-only rooms behind the dunes at Galé, small enough to have the place to yourself.
Sixty-six rooms behind a tiled Pombaline facade on Rua da Prata, unusually large for downtown Lisbon.
A 331-room five-star above Eduardo VII Park, built for business travel rather than atmosphere.
An 18th-century palace on Praça da Liberdade, at the exact centre of Porto.
Suites with roofs that slide open to the sky, on a vineyard within sight of Évora's hills.
Twenty-three suites in two century-old villas on a promontory, with a two-star kitchen next door.
Historic architecture, gorgeous rooms, and a serene pool area are stunning, but the service truly set this property apart.
Tucked away on a quiet lane in Alfama, this adults-only retreat offers forty-two rooms and a pool overlooking the Lisbon skyline.
A hotel inside the Vista Alegre porcelain campus, using the founders' palace as one of its wings.
Sixty-one rooms in schist and glass terraced down to the Douro at kilometre 41 of the N222.
A reworked thermal spa in the Furnas valley, with volcanic pools open around the clock.
A whitewashed farm estate in eastern Algarve citrus groves, refurbished in 2025.
Six suites in a neo-Moorish mansion built with a Brazilian fortune, above the Alfama waterfront.
A tile-fronted 1920s chalet, the first hotel in Cascais, a hundred metres from the station.
A hotel above a stationer's that has traded since 1829 and is still run by the same family.
A 16th-century palace on Rua das Flores with a baroque chapel in the courtyard and an indoor pool.
Thirty-six rooms in the monks' cells of a 15th-century convent, facing the Roman Temple of Diana.
A 12th-century Augustinian monastery above Guimarães, whose restoration won the 1985 architecture prize.
A pink Rococo palace inland from Faro, restored by Gonçalo Byrne with Versailles-inspired gardens.
Ninety rooms in the old Ministry of Internal Affairs, directly on Praça do Comércio.
Forty-nine rooms in glass and stone among a working banana plantation, ten minutes from Funchal.
Sixty-one rooms around a terracotta courtyard where the grain stores stood, over the rice fields.
Quinta de Peleiros transforms a century-old, estate into an rural retreat at the foothills of the Serra da Estrela mountains.
Twenty-three rooms scattered across a working family vineyard on the terraces above Pinhão.
An 18th-century quinta and a schist wing by Francisco Vieira de Campos, on the Corgo near Régua.
An 1891 palace on the cliff above Funchal bay, where Churchill painted and everyone took tea.
Seven suites above one of Porto's best brunch rooms, in the gallery district of Cedofeita.
Nineteen rooms in a 15th-century palace built over a Roman villa, high in Alfama.
A small eco-certified hotel in Sintra's old town, a short walk from the National Palace.
Villas among the umbrella pines outside Comporta, with rooms that can be combined or booked whole.
A 200-year-old farming village on 780 hectares, brought back by Eduardo Souto de Moura.
A 14th-century convent on the Ave estuary, converted into 87 rooms with two Michelin Keys.
Fifty-three apartment-suites with kitchens in the Count of Lumiares' 18th-century palace, Bairro Alto.
A former Taylor's port warehouse on the Douro at Pinhão, with every balcony facing the river.
Eighty-two terraced rooms above the port lodges of Gaia, with the best view in Porto.
An 1884 palace where each floor is a continent and each room is a spice the ships brought back.
An Estado Novo building above the Douro where every room is named for an avant-garde artist.
Two 1900s mansions and a national monument on Sant'Ana hill, with two pools and a Michelin star.
Twenty-four rooms in an 1861 merchant's palace, each named for a Portuguese writer.
Nineteen rooms in a manor dating to 1338, beside one of Portugal's great Roman villa sites.
Christian Louboutin's thirteen-room village hotel, furnished from his own storage of antiques.
A Belle Époque thermal palace from 1910 with a Siza Vieira spa, in a 250-acre wooded park.
Self-catering villas and studios with two pools, a kids' club and full kitchens, outside Cascais.
A 19th-century manor on the Foz seafront with a Michelin star and Nini Andrade Silva interiors.
Thirteen suites above Praia da Galé, wrapped around Portugal's longest-held two-Michelin-star kitchen.
Three Michelin Keys across 54 clifftop acres, with ten restaurants and Portugal's first Sisley spa.
Nine suites and two villas along a hundred metres of clifftop, built from the ruin the owners found.