Countryside Estate in Coimbra

A walled quinta of 14,400 m² in Lamarosa, a village beside Tentúgal, fifteen to twenty minutes from the center of Coimbra. It has been run as a private events venue, mostly weddings, with capacity for around 600 guests.

The property is equipped to trade without further investment. There is a commercial kitchen, a bar, indoor and covered reception areas, twelve bathrooms, landscaped gardens, a barbecue area, a children’s play area, and parking for 40 cars. The grounds open onto farmland with views toward the hills. Buildings and gardens are in good condition throughout.

Set apart from the event areas is a two-bedroom private residence, and another one-bedroom residence. Owners have lived there while the venue operated around them, which is uncommon at this scale. Most venues this size have no habitable private quarters at all.

The current registered use is services, and that is where the opportunity sits. A buyer can keep the events business running, with its existing booking pipeline and a market of foreign couples marrying in Portugal that has grown every year since 2015. Or the estate can be converted: into a single private residence with real seclusion twenty minutes from a university city, into individual cottages for short-term rental, or into a rural hotel using the kitchen and reception space that already exist. Reverting the use classification is a licensing process with the Câmara Municipal, decided against the municipal master plan, and we can provide a feasibility note on any of the three routes before you travel to view.

Coimbra is fifteen to twenty minutes away, with hospitals, international schools, and an Alfa Pendular station. Its university was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2013. Montemor-o-Velho and its castle above the Mondego rice fields are roughly ten minutes in the other direction. The Atlantic at Figueira da Foz is about thirty minutes by the A14. Porto airport is around an hour and fifteen, Lisbon airport around two hours.

Price: 1.800.000€. Land area 14,400 m². Energy class D. Viewings by appointment.