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What we offer

There are 10 double-rooms available in the Manor House, a reception with a library heated with a salamander, a breakfast room and Enoteca, a wine’s place with a sitting room and with a fireplace. Outside there is a children’s playground and you can also enjoy the swimming pool, created to provide a stay with peace and tranquility in a rural environment. You can use the wood, help yourself in our self-service corner situated in the corridor of the “popular wing” where microwave, mini-bar and tea are at your disposal. Throughout the house there is a wireless internet (also in the gardens) without any additional cost.

The reception is on the first room of the house. Here you will find a library waiting for you as well as sofas, bookshelves and a salamander. The restored ancient “Lovers seats “of the house “ask” you to sit there for a while … (and go backwards into the past). In this area, a shelve with local products provides a certain delight since we want to enable you the possibility to take home a little bit of our region through delicacies to offer or as souvenirs for you to remember your experience with us.

Breakfast is tenderly prepared, with local home-made products (natural juices, fruit, home-made jams and cakes made each morning. Here the traditional schedule 8.00 to 10.00 is not imperative since our guests may enjoy breakfast any time from 8h30 until 11h00 a.m.. According to our availability, late check-out may be a plus we would like to offer you. Just ask if there is availability.

Our Services

  • Swimming pool (June-September)
  • Room service (by request)
  • Bar service 
  • Transfers (by request in advance)
  • Laundry service
  • Bicycles, picnic in the field (by request)
  • Equestrian activities (20 Km)
  • Spa treatments (9 Km at Termas de São Vicente)
  • Rafting in Rio Paiva
  • Wine tasting in farms|Quintas of Vale do Sousa (10 km)
  • Pedestrian and BTT trail guides in “Rota do Românico”
  • Visits to the monuments of “Rota do Românico”

For children

We have as a mission to provide a true contact with nature and life in the fields to the little ones. That is why we have developed a series of activities thinking about them:

A children’s place with swings, slides, a wooden-house recreates a kind of enchanted world of the little ones; A small corner of the swimming-pool, specially for children; A biologic garden where children can interact and learn more about our crops; Horse riding (20km); Visit to “Magikland” (10km); A place where children can paint freely. Everyday, we will provide healthy home-made soup with local products only thinking of the little ones; And whatever you wish, just ask since we are here to do everything for you and to provide happy moments to the little ones.

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Garden and Horticultural

Os jardins foram pensados com plantas autóctones, com recantos de bem-estar e espaços para poder simplesmente repousar, ler ou dormitar. Poderá refrescar-se na piscina com vista privilegiada sobre o vale, com estrutura de madeira à volta e relva; para as famílias, especialmente com crianças, com uma zona da piscina dedicada aos mais pequenos.

Uma horta biológica precisa de uma boa exposição solar e de estar bem protegida dos ventos. Encontrámos o cantinho perfeito. Alguns alimentos serão fruto da nossa horta.  Aqui plantamos um bocadinho de tudo, desde tomate, alface, nabos, couve-galega, nabiças, feijão, batata, ervas aromáticas, chás, entre outros. 

History and Tribute

120 year-old Solar Egas Moniz “Charming House & Local Experiences” presents traditional architectonic characteristics of a home of aristocratic owners from the time. It is situated near the famous shelter home for unprivileged children “Casa do Gaiato” and the Monastery “Mosteiro do Salvador do Paço de Sousa”. This monastery plays an essential role in the Solar Egas Moniz strategic presentation since the building, sponsored by Egas Moniz tutor, the first King of Portugal (D. Afonso Henriques), and which is only 100 meters away from the Mansion is an ex-libris of the “Rota do Românico”: (Romanesque Route). Thus, the House was given his name as a tribute to him.

Portuguese history is also present in the geographic area of the House namely in the trail and discovery of “Rota do Românico” (Romanesque Route). It is the starting point for a journey plenty of culture and patrimony.

Bearing in mind the historical deeds of Egas Moniz, the first king of Portugal D. Afonso Henriques’s tutor, the concept of “word” takes essential importance. Egas Moniz gave King D. Afonso VII “his word” that Afonso Henriques would be his vassal, thus avoiding the continuation of the siege of the city of Guimarães. Nevertheless as he could not keep his “word” he placed himself and his family in the hands of the emperor of Hispania, who, impressed with such an honor, spared their lives. This episode of Egas Moniz, shows his honor, loyalty, and humility but also his courage, wisdom and altruism.

The virtues of Egas Moniz are the motto to the denomination of the rooms of the Historic wing. This is the rebuilt area of the House which recalls the origins of the history of Portugal of great and renown recognition worldwide. Luis Vaz de Camões in his masterpiece “Os Lusíadas”, renown worldwide, portrays this episode of Egas Moniz , thus, eternalizing this act of great “courage, loyalty and altruism”.