Hilltop Haven
Capping an evergreen hilltop up from the Alentejo’s unspoiled Comporta coast, this rectilinear villa spreads like a luxurious white slash across the horizon, an open-air, sundrenched pavilion and pool punctuating 18 private hectares above the Atlantic.
A bright aerie inspired by the owners’ admiration of their four daughters, this geometric villa incorporates their girls’ best qualities—fortress-like strength, wide observation, deep connection to nature, and timeless beauty. The breezy residence offers guests the opportunity to inhale the unbridled nature of the region’s windswept coastline and exhale unneeded stress within its minimalist volumes and organic décor.
Two independent yet connected houses make up this villa for rent in Portugal, and they share a long, lean terrace, an internal breezeway and gorgeous landscaped pool garden. The structures are great for extended families or friends traveling together, and cover a wild, green, inland peak, offering wraparound views of the Figuera Valley and beyond. The newly constructed homes’ seamless flow and crisp lines would look right at home in Palm Springs or LA, the angular, white structures displaying a vivid, neo-modernist, mid-century style, all dressed up and contemporary. From the home’s infinity-edged pool, uninterrupted views extend across an evergreen stretch to the Atlantic coastline. Closer in, the manicured lot is cut with generous, desert modernist-styled beds that ultimately spread out to a spacious, golf-course-like turf lawn.
AROUND
Offering privacy and hilltop tranquility, this spacious villa for rent in Portugal feels like a secluded estate, yet benefits from its location only minutes from Melides. With its unassuming boutiques and growing services, Melides is known for its big dose of nature and cool, low-key beachfront vibe. Having said that, new luxury resorts and celeb and haute couture residents have also earned it a reputation as Portugal’s up-and-coming designer destination, to rival its shinier neighbor, Comporta.
This part of Portugal’s Alentejo region is undeniably beautiful, a still mostly virgin landscape of vineyards and cork oak fields, rice paddies and groves of glinting olive and citrus trees. Colorful cobbled villages are watched over by huge stork’s nests that top steeples and clocktowers in season, and the area’s golden sand beaches are backed by dunes and cliffs. Not to be missed sands include Praia da Galé-Fontainhas, Praia da Comporta and the Praia da Melides. Protected lagoons, their striped turquoise and royal blue waters rich with birds and wildlife, include Lagoa de Santo André and Lagoa de Melides. Walkers will love the Vereda de Melides footpath, the Biomelides pedestrian route, and the more vigorous Rota da Serra de Grândola that circles through a massive cork-oak forest and over hills crisscrossed by streams and village ruins, in the rugged Serra de Grândola range.
LOCATION
Comporta, Alentejo, Portugal. Nearest airport: Lisbon
