The 17th-century Quinta dos Espadeiros is located in the municipality of Almada and represents a true oasis in the urban environment.
To the architectural-cultural heritage formed by the house and chapel is added an admirable landscape consisting of lagoons surrounded by trees and other plants.
A ground floor L-shaped eastern body, which includes the kitchen and the dovecote, which are the oldest parts of this property, includes an imposing entrance hallway with natural light and a quadrangular slab tank, a hall, library, bedroom, two bathrooms and a storage room. All these rooms have direct access to the courtyards, gardens and swimming pool.
There is a set of buildings that include an olive oil press, wine cellar and old barn.
At the southern end of the farm, there is an approximately 800 sq m “Saint Gobain” double-glazed greenhouse fitted with temperature control and monitoring systems that contains an aquatic system fitted with aquariums with water filtering and renovation systems.
This two-building property has 1,315 sq m of gross private area and is set on a 64,507 sq m plot of land.
The main house has an entrance hallway with a tank, a dining room with a fireplace, a kitchen, a large lounge with a fireplace, a library, two bedrooms with a living room, two bathrooms, a hallway, a chapel and a storage room.
The secondary house features a lounge and dining room, both with fireplaces, a suite, two bedrooms and three bathrooms.
The basement of this house consists of an L-shaped lounge with a fireplace, an industrial kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom.
It also has a separate house with a lounge with a fireplace, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, an office and a kitchen.
The main house along with the secondary house and basement are interconnected by a central passageway and an 17th/18th-century chapel.
Features:
– Chapel
– Olive oil press
– Wine cellar
– Old barn
– Greenhouse
– Swimming pool
– Fireplaces
– Library
– Courtyards
– Gardens
– Ponds
– Energy certification: D
Almada is a Portuguese city in the District of Setúbal and the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. It is the ninth-largest town in Portugal, with around 95,000 inhabitants.
It is the municipal seat and is 70.21 sq km in area, with the municipality split into five parishes with a total of 174,030 inhabitants (2011). The municipality is bounded to the east by Seixal, to the south by Sesimbra and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean. To the north and northeast it is bounded by the Tagus Estuary opposite Lisbon and Oeiras municipalities.
The county received a charter from King Sancho I in the year 1190. Along with Lisbon, Sintra and Palmela, it is one of the oldest administrative divisions within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Almada, which was awarded city status in 1973, includes Costa da Caparica, which was made a city in 2004.
Its main points of interest include the Cristo Rei National Sanctuary, the Capuchins Convent and Gardens, Monte da Cruz, the riverside zone, parks and gardens (Chão das Artes botanical garden, the Palácio/Casa da Cerca – Contemporary Art Centre, the Almada Castle Garden, the Costa da Caparica Fossil Cliff, among others). In addition to its central location, it has shopping areas and good access to the capital via the 25 April Bridge, the Sul do Tejo metro – an environmentally-friendly electric transport system with three routes and 19 stops with connections to other public transport services – shopping areas, the university and more densely populated areas, the Fertagus railway and the Transtejo ferries with two routes to Lisbon: Cacilhas – Cais do Sodré and Trafaria – Porto Brandão – Belém.
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