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Sintra Marmoris Palace
Sintra, Portugal · Marmòris · Accessible Luxury
Sintra emptied out after the monarchy fell in 1910 and a good many of its grand houses were left to rot. This one, a manor raised on the hill above town in 1890, came back in May 2017 with nine rooms and new marble cut from its owners' own quarry in the Minho. The garden runs to 14,000 square metres with peacocks loose in it, the heated pool sits under a roof that slides open, and the Castelo dos Mouros holds the ridge above the treetops.
- 9 rooms
- Opened 2017
- Rooms from 269 sq ft (25 m²)
About Sintra Marmoris Palace
- The owners are a marble family several generations deep. The stone used in the 2017 restoration came from their own quarry, Marmores Centrais do Minho, which is also where the hotel's name comes from.
- Only four of the nine rooms are in the main house. The other five sit in a separate garden building a few metres away, each opening straight onto the grounds.
- The group's other houses are an Alentejo hotel with a spa built inside a disused marble quarry, and a restored noble chalet at the entrance to Sintra village.
- Entry-level rooms start at 269 sq ft (25 m²).
History
The building was a private family manor, put up at the end of the nineteenth century, in 1890, on the hillside above Sintra and reported to have been commissioned by the Alves family. It survived the upheavals that emptied Sintra after the fall of the monarchy in 1910 in better shape than many of its neighbours, but it went nearly a century without serious work.
The Marmoris group, run by a family with several generations in the marble trade, restored it and opened it as a hotel in May 2017, keeping the nineteenth-century romantic character that defines Sintra and using marble from the family's own quarry, Marmores Centrais do Minho. The result is small on purpose: nine individually decorated rooms, four in the main house and five in a garden building a short walk away, on an estate of 14,000 square metres of garden with a heated pool under a telescopic roof. It is the group's Sintra flagship, alongside the Alentejo Marmoris Hotel & Spa, built in 2013 out of an old olive press and a disused marble quarry, and the Sintra Marmoris Camelia, a recovered noble chalet at the entrance to Sintra village that opened in December 2022.
The setting
The hotel stands on the hill above the historic centre of Sintra, about seven minutes' walk down to the old town, inside the Cultural Landscape of Sintra that UNESCO inscribed in 1995. The view from the gardens takes in the Castelo dos Mouros, the ruined Moorish fortress strung along the ridge, and the summit of the Serra de Sintra. Sintra was the summer court of Portuguese kings for six centuries, and everything that fame produced is close by: the National Palace with its conical chimneys in the town below, Pena Palace and Monserrate up the mountain, the Quinta da Regaleira and its initiation well a short walk away. Lisbon is about 38 kilometres east.
Amenities
- Salas amplas com luz natural
- Wireless gratuito em todas as salas
- Equipamento audiovisual completo nas salas
- Espaços indoor e outdoor para cocktails e coffee-breaks
- Casamentos, baptizados e outras festas
- Coffee breaks
- Almoços e jantares de trabalho
- Propostas de animação
- Atividades de team building
- Equipa dedicada para eventos
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