PORTUGAL – TAGUS VALLEY – OBIDOS – MANOR HOUSE
Accommodation at Casa de Obidos.

The Manor House, Casa de Obidos, offers top quality accommodation in Central Portugal

This delightful house, approximately 1 kilometre from the walled hilltop town of Obidos, is the perfect place to relax in rural surroundings. Casa d’Obidos makes an attractive and is an attractive alternative to the Pousada do Castelo and hotels in the town centre.

The Manor House, constructed in 1889, is surrounded by a delightful, newly replanted garden containing many types of fruit and specimen trees.

The fence is of trained quince plants for making the Portuguese ‘marmelada’ which accompanies cheese. There is also a cactus garden near the garden pergola.

The estate is behind the imposing but little used church of Senhor da Pedra. In the buildings surrounding the church are good restaurants and this area can be reached by a footpath from Casa d’Obidos.

In the garden is the pool and an asphalt tennis court and a barbecue area.

In the main house there are six bedrooms, three with double beds and three with twin beds. All bedrooms have ensuite bathrooms.

Guests also have the use of the lounge, a dining room and a games room which includes a pool table.

Breakfast is very substantial by Portuguese standards even the English wanting bacon, eggs, sausage, fried bread and black pudding might be able to have something more like home!

Nearby there are facilities for riding. Golf can be played at the local course of Praia D’el Rey where there is a discount of approximately 30%.

The attractive fishing towns of Nazare and Peniche are within an easy car drive and both are famed for their many fish restaurants.

The town of Obidos is one of the most visited towns in Portugal. It is known as “The Wedding City” since, from 1282, it was the traditional wedding gift of the kings of Portugal to their queens.

In 1444 King Afonso V, then aged ten years, married his eight year old cousin, Isabella in the old church in the central square in the town.

The active and adventurous should take a walk around the town walls but the uneven surface and lack of guard rails make it unsuitable for the young and elderly.

There is a fish market most mornings near the gates to the town and in October there is a festival of ancient music in various places around the town.