Casa Do Governador

Casa Do Governador

Casa Do Governador is a century-old house on twenty-eight hectares of ecological reserve outside Evora, holding just seven rooms across the main building, a family suite, and a separate villa with its own kitchen and fireplace. Guests staying in the Suite wake to a canopy bed and a private terrace looking toward Evora's historic center, while those in the Double Room sleep among restored antique furniture with a view over vineyards. The house stands about three kilometers from town, close enough to walk in for the Roman Temple, the University of Evora, and Convento dos Loios, far enough that nothing but olive trees shows from the Junior Suite terrace. There is a shared kitchen for anyone who prefers cooking to room service, a library and a bowling club for evenings that skip the screen, a conference hall for guests mixing business with the trip, and a playroom that keeps children from being an afterthought. Staff speak English, Spanish and French, arrange transfers on request, and handle pet stays room by room rather than with a blanket rule. What this house has that a city hotel in Evora does not is scale: fields to walk instead of a lobby, a pool with space around it, and seven rooms spread across twenty-eight hectares so other guests rarely register. It suits a couple wanting a base with land to walk and a kitchen at hand, or a family taking the Villa for a week. It does not suit anyone hoping to fall out of a bar onto cobblestones at midnight. Extra beds cost 75 euros a night, and checkout at noon leaves mornings unrushed. Casa Do Governador is a century-old house on twenty-eight hectares outside Evora, with only seven rooms, a shared kitchen, and a pool with room to spare. It suits couples and families wanting land to walk, less so anyone chasing Evora's bars at midnight.