Casa Azimute — Alentejo, Portugal

Interior of bedroom
(Image credit: Francisco Nogueira)

Pop yellow, deep purple and blue – echoed in the cloudless skies and the surrounding wild flowers – are all found in Casa Azimute, a six-bedroom house filled with colourful Portuguese artisanal tiles and locally woven rugs that give the space a soul and a real sense of place.

Owners Danny and Andy have lavished love on this once derelict farmhouse, a long, low-slung building topped with typical squat chimneys used for smoking hams. Beside it now stands the minimalistic, contemporary B&B, where varnished cement floors meets bold, hand-painted tiles, sleek showers or free-standing bath tubs.

Shower on your terrace to the sound of goat bells tingling in the distance, or lie by the pool and watch the sun journey across the sky, over the white-washed hilltop medieval city of Estremoz, in the distance. 

Interior of hotel bedroom and view of balcony

(Image credit: Francisco Nogueira)

Private balcony of hotel room

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Balcony furniture and pool

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Living room area of hotel room

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Seating area and piano at hotel

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Dining tables and chairs

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Private bed with beautiful view

(Image credit: Francisco Nogueira)

Bathroom interior

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Open plan bedroom and bathroom

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Outside bed

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Exterior view of hotel and staircase

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ADDRESS

Estrada da Folgada Post box 1517
7100-574 Estremoz

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Mary Lussiana is a passionate hotel-lover and freelance travel writer contributing to many of the UK’s best magazines and newspapers. A mother of three, she has lived in Portugal's sunny south since this century began, and continues to live there with her husband, their yellow Labrador, Bellini and returning children.