No Campo is the Portuguese word for 'outside', 'in the country'. Because of the tranquillity, the space and the beauty of this 'campo', in 1999 we purchased a farm with 4 hectares of land, just outside of Santa Margarida da Serra, with hundreds of cork-oaks, an olive-grove, a kitchen-garden and lots of fruit-trees. We planted subtropical trees and shrubs and converted the “monte”, the original farmstead in Alentejo-style, into one single guest-house. Not a resort, but one private accomodation just for you.
To the south of Lisbon, in the Alentejo, lies the Costa Azul. Near Grândola you will find no campo.
Accommodation
Bedrooms
Two bedrooms:- One with double bed, the other with two single beds. Crib for baby is available
The bathroom:- With shower, toilet, wash-hand basin with hot and cold running water.
The sitting-room:- Is L-shaped, with living and dining-recess. Equipped with colour television and radio/CD-player. On winter evenings the wood-stove gives welcoming warmth. The big windows command a stately view towards the South and West.
The
kitchen:-
Fully equipped with all modern conveniences, like big fridge,
gas-cooker, microwave-oven and coffee machine.
The terraces:- The French windows give immediate access to the terraces, where you will find garden chairs and a table, reclining-chairs and equipment for a BBQ.
From the southern terrace you have a view over the valley, where our goats pasture underneath the cork-oaks. When sitting on the other side of the guesthouse, in the shade of the vine-tendrils, you have a view of the olive-grove. Whether you prefer sun or shade, you will find it.
Around the area
No Campo lies in a protected nature reserve, inviting you to enjoy beautiful bike rides or for walking-tours, for instance down to the nearby river, or into the mountains, towards the summit where you find “A nossa Senhora da Penha,”, a rural chapel.
Information about bicycle- and walking-tours is awaiting you, the region is a pleasure-ground for mountain-bikers, with its seemingly endless dirt-roads without traffic. Although the terrain is quite hilly, summits are never over 250 metres. Or you just stay home and enjoy the campo, watch the birds including the hoopoe, the redheaded shrike and the bee-eater, or spot salamanders and lizards. Depending on the season, you can gather mushrooms and pick olives and wild marjoram (Oregano).
In the thinly inhabited province of Alentejo, 10 kilometres to the south of Grândola, lies the little village of Santa Margarida da Serra. A friendly mountain-village with low, white plastered cottages, surrounded by endless slopes strewn with thousands of cork-oaks. It is situated near the Atlantic coast, the Costa Azul, with its tranquil seaside resorts like Melides and Lagoa de Santo André. You can reach Santa Margarida by the A2 motorway from Lisbon airport in about an hour.
Tariif
January and December:- € 270,-- /per week Christmas Holidays (23-12 till 8-1) € 385,-- /per week
February, March and November:- € 310,-- /per week
April, May, June, September, October :- € 385,-- /per week week 18 (29-4 till 6-5) € 425,-- /per week
July/ August:- € 515,-- /per week 4 adults €770 per week
Guaranty € 150 per reservation
Rates apply for groups up to max. 4 persons. Minimum stay 4 days.
Additional fee for baby crib € 15,-- /per week.
Rates include water, gas and electricity, clean towels twice a week, clean bed-clothes once a week. Excluding firewood for the wood-stove.
For further information please visit our website:- www.nocampo.com
Email:- home@nocampo.com
Postal Address:
Erik Smit & Wanrade van der Hoek,
C.C.I. 3014, 7570-777 Santa Margarida da Serra, Portugal
Phone /Telefax 00 351 269 449008 / Cell-phone 00 351 962817357
