RURAL WINE HOTEL OF LODÕES

Where winemaking tradition meets contemporary luxury.
type

Hospitality

location

Salgueiró | Vila Flor

year

2022

CONSTRUCTION AREA

4.563 m²

status

Licensing Project

type

Hospitality

location

Salgueiró | Vila Flor

status

Licensing Project

year

2022

CONSTRUCTION AREA

4.563 m²

A 5 star retreat in the heart of the Douro Valley, for a unique wine tourism experience.

The root of the project.

Located in the charming Quinta de Lodões, in Salgueiró, Vila Flor, this five-star architectural development integrates naturally into the Douro wine landscape. The hotel represents an innovative approach to rural tourism, combining wine tradition with contemporary comfort and sophistication. The varied topography of the land has been carefully incorporated into the building's design, reducing visual impact and reinforcing the connection with nature.

With two floors, the upper level concentrates the common areas — bar, reception and restaurant — all privileged by panoramic views of the surrounding landscape. Access is via a path paved with granite cubes, which connects the regional roads to the external parking lot with capacity for 28 vehicles. The main entrance, located on the central axis of the volume, symmetrically divides the dining and administrative service areas, ensuring a harmonious and organized arrival for guests.

The lower floor houses the more private areas, including 40 rooms and a spa, organized in two wings that follow the morphology of the land. This layout ensures greater privacy, privileged views, and functional integration with the spa, allowing for easy and comfortable access from the accommodation units. With a concrete structure, green roofs, and curvilinear volumes partially buried within the hillside design, the hotel stands out for its durability and energy efficiency.

The Hotel Rural de Lodões promises to become a benchmark in the region, harmoniously and innovatively combining tourism, culture, and wine tourism.

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There are lines that are not drawn — they reveal themselves. Between each shadow and each glimmer of light, the feeling arises that the space breathes with us. Surfaces become tactile memory; volumes, a welcoming silence. Each form finds its place as if it had always belonged there, guided by an almost invisible precision, a harmony that is felt before it is understood — not by its grandeur, but by the subtlety with which it organizes the world around us.

And, at the center of it all, remains the promise that each well-designed space is also an invitation to tranquility, to pause, and to reconnect with the essential.
Rigor as language.
Light as matter.
Manner as truth.
Architecture... as purpose.
Transform intention into architecture.
Rigor as language.
Light as matter.
Manner as truth.
Architecture... as purpose.
Transform intention into architecture.
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