Quinta da Terrincha

The beautifully restored eighteenth-century manor house creates an environment that combines the tradition of good hospitality, characteristic of the area, with the glamour of those who lived in another era!

Walking in the gardens of the Vilariça valley at dawn and witnessing the awakening of all nature for another day full of movement. That becoming of nature (a permanent flow, uninterrupted movement, acting as a general law of the universe, which dissolves, creates, and transforms all existing realities; becoming, coming to be.)

It was the passion for Douro that brought Mónica, the civil engineer by profession and daughter of the owner Odete Dias, for the long work of recovery and transformation of the Seixas Pinto family property.

Legend has it – and archaeological evidence – that Roman colonizers settled there when they occupied the Iberian lands. But they were not the only ones to leave traces at Quinta da Terrincha, also the Muslims who dedicated themselves to agriculture in these parts.

After the formation of Portugal, this property remained as an agricultural territorial unit administered by the King. It was King Afonso V in the 15th century who ceded the lands to the noble Álvaro Pires Machado, as a form of payment for services rendered to the King in the conquest of Alcácer Quibir.

But not all were times of prosperity at Quinta da Terrincha. At the end of the 20th century, the state of degradation of the main house and the lands was great.

Today, with about 90 hectares of vineyard and 100 hectares of olive grove for the production of organic olive oil, they are one of the main farms in the region.

Cheers!