Madeira Villas

Madeira villas originated as roman country houses built for the upper class. Today, the term villas still remain in Portugal and exist as private homes available as vacation accommodations. For more on villas..

Portugal Pousadas

Pousadas of Portugal is a name of a chain of luxury, traditional or historic hotels in Portugal that are not your average hotels. The Pousadas were envisioned in the early 1940’s by Government Minister António Ferro, also a poet and playwright who had the idea of creating hotels that were both rustic and genuinely Portuguese. His first Pousada was built in Elvas, in the Alentejo, which would be the first of what Ferro called “small hotels that look nothing like hotels".[1]

Today there are many Pousadas in use that are both privately and government run. Pousadas in Portugal can be located in preserved or modified monuments such as convents, monasteries, castles, fortresses and palaces. More, the pousadas can be in the form of “Charm Pousadas” located in areas of romance or “Nature Pousadas” in natural countryside settings.[2]  For more on Madeira Pousadas or Portugal mainland Pousadas...