0.3 business
Address:
Rua das janelas verdes, 47
, Lisboa 1200-690, Portugal
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Lonely Planet review
- Kerry Walker
- Lonely Planet author
Slumber is pretty rosy at this pink-tinged 18th-century mansion, once home to Eça de Queirós, Portugal's great 19th-century novelist. Nowadays it's a bijou boutique hotel with glam rooms, a wood-panelled library overlooking the river, and a secret garden where you can relax amid fountains and bougainvillea.This blushing mansion turned boutique hotel has an intimate feel and personalised service. It sums up classic elegance in its antique-filled corridors and salon complete with fireplace and grand piano. Daylight streams into the spacious rooms, decorated in muted tones with heavy drapes and marble-topped dressers. Little extras to make you smile include a welcome bottle of port, a flatscreen TV and DVD player, and a shiny marble bathroom where you can foam up with Molton Brown soaps. The skylit dining room has a neo-Moorish twist with tiled tables, columns and fountains where goldfish swim. When the sun's out, take breakfast in the vine-strewn courtyard. With leather club chairs, antiquarian books and a telescope for stargazers, the wood-panelled library affords superb views over Lisbon to the Rio Tejo.
