Casa d'Óbidos

An estate with a view of the castle

Casa d'Óbidos is a 19th-century manor house, restored and redecorated, at Quinta de São José, on the outskirts of the town. It works like the traditional Portuguese estate: a main house with rooms and, around it, several cottages converted into apartments, all within about 10,000 m² of garden and woodland. From the estate you can see Óbidos castle on the horizon. It is the option for those who prefer to sleep with silence and a pool, and to enter the town when the crowds have gone.

Rooms and apartments

In the main house there are six spacious rooms, three double and three twin, all with their own bathroom. They share a dining room and a games room with a fireplace and a billiard table. The apartments bear women's names: Casa Cristina, Casa Matilde, Casa Leonor, Casa Teresinha and Casa Helena. Casa Cristina, for example, is on the first floor of a restored 18th-century cottage. Meals are not included in the apartments, and from July to September they ask for a minimum of two nights.

Outside you have a pool, a tennis court and free parking. There is wifi. The website does not publish prices or check-in and check-out times: the price is checked in its booking engine, and the rest by phone or email.

Getting there

You need a car. The estate is in the north of the municipality of Óbidos, less than a kilometre in a straight line from the castle according to the coordinates the house gives (39° 22′ 02″ N, 9° 09′ 14″ W). The website has two access maps in PDF, one for those arriving from the north and another from the south. From Lisbon it is about 85 km along the A8. To enter the town, park in the car parks outside the wall.

What is nearby

In a few minutes you are at the wall and Rua Direita. The lagoon, with kayaking and Foz do Arelho, is to the north, about twenty minutes by car. With children, the pool and the garden solve the afternoon.