In Lapa, five fishermen’s houses from 1878 have been stitched into Villa Dorothéa, a residence of twenty rooms with no lobby, no protocol and a courtyard full of jasmine. There is a moment, somewhere between the top of Rua das…
In the western Algarve, a 19th-century manor house has become the region’s only five-star rural retreat, a place where silence is the amenity and the land itself does the talking. The experience begins before the hotel even comes into view.…
On a former orange grove between Quinta do Lago and Vale do Lobo, Miguel Sequeira spent five years constructing a space that refuses to be merely a restaurant. Authentic is, above all else, a work of art. The first thing…
There is a particular kind of clarity that comes from being an outsider. You see the gaps that locals have long stopped noticing. Julie de Halleux, the Belgian founder of Lisbon by Design, saw one the moment she arrived. “When…
There is a particular quality of light in the Algarve that doesn’t need any description. It’s warm and diffuse, the kind that makes everything it touches look even better. At Wyndham Grand Algarve, set within the protected expanse of the…
Ricardo Vila Nova named his clinics after two phone codes. Twenty-one for Lisbon. Twenty-two for Porto, where he is from. The two numbers together, 2122, carried the outline of a career: where he started, where he arrived. Then he found…
There is something deliberately unique about Isabella Russo Siqueira’s paintings and that is precisely the point. Stretched across the walls of Her Clique’s Lisbon gallery, the large-scale works on fabric carry the memory of two climates: the sudden tropical downpours…
When people think of Lisbon, they often picture sunshine and the Tagus River, and SUD Lisboa captures both perfectly. Set in Belém, with breathtaking views of the 25 de Abril Bridge and Cristo Rei, it has become one of the…
Lisbon’s Olympia Lis Hotel has been a concert hall, a jazz club, a cinema, and a ruin. Now it’s one of the most interesting new hotels in the city. The Birth of the Olympia In 1911, Leopoldo O’Donnell, son of…
Near Amoreiras, on a street long occupied by Lisbon’s architecture studios, a new address redefines the typology. The Water Studio Lisbon is the latest in a series of experience-driven spaces developed by the Hansgrohe Group, following London, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Hamburg…
