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Estremoz, Portugal

Dá Licença

A marble house in Estremoz, where the pool, the baths, and the hill are the same stone.

Our read

What stood out was the dusk pool with two chairs, the hall where a metal fireplace hangs from the ceiling, and a bedroom that opens onto one orange tree. Vitor Borges and Franck Laigneau write that this is the landscape where they stopped looking.

Come here for

  • The marble country around Estremoz
  • A house with a handful of suites

Skip it if

  • You want a beach hotel
  • You want a large resort with a programme

We’d rather send you somewhere else than send you somewhere that doesn’t suit you.

01 - Arrive

The place itself

Dá Licença is at Outeiro das Freiras, Santo Estêvão, 7100-580 Estremoz, in the Alentejo. The site prints that address and the telephone +351 962 950 540. For a room, write reservations@dalicenca.pt. Book on dalicenca.pt. They describe the Herdade das Freiras, an olive estate from 1830, three hundred acres and more than thirteen thousand olive trees, on white and pink marble. The photographs are a circular pool at dusk with two wooden chairs, the white house at night with an olive against the wall, a hall where a dark metal fireplace hangs from the ceiling, the long white walls and a gate in the gravel, a bedroom opening onto an orange tree, and a bath cut from one block of marble. The stone of the hill is the stone of the baths. Vitor Borges and Franck Laigneau are the names on the about page. They write that they found their place here. Lunch is from the organic garden, for guests, and they ask for 48 hours. Five suites, two of them with a private marble pool, and four junior suites.

02 - Feel

Why it is different

Estremoz

Outeiro das Freiras, Santo Estêvão, 7100-580 Estremoz. The house sits on the marble hill.

The hanging fire

In the hall, a metal fireplace drops from the ceiling between round windows.

The marble bath

One bath is a single block of marble, under a woven hanging.

One desk

reservations@dalicenca.pt and +351 962 950 540.

03 · Live here

How the days go

  1. Arrive

    Outeiro das Freiras, Santo Estêvão, 7100-580 Estremoz. The house sits on the marble hill.

  2. Feel

    What stood out was the dusk pool with two chairs, the hall where a metal fireplace hangs from the ceiling, and a bedroom that opens onto one orange tree. Vitor Borges and Franck Laigneau write that this is the landscape where they stopped looking.

  3. Live here

    In the hall, a metal fireplace drops from the ceiling between round windows.

  4. Stay

    A suite at Dá Licença.

  5. Go

    reservations@dalicenca.pt and +351 962 950 540.

04 - Stay

Ways to stay

A suite on the hill

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A suite at Dá Licença.

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05 - Know

Before you go

Written from what the property publishes. Not yet checked by hand. Confirm on their site before you book.

Find it in Maps
Where is Dá Licença?

Outeiro das Freiras, Santo Estêvão, 7100-580 Estremoz, Portugal.

What is the stay built around?

The marble hill: the white house, the circular pool, and baths cut from the same stone.

Who do they name?

Vitor Borges and Franck Laigneau, on the about page.

Where do I eat?

Lunch from the organic garden, for guests. They ask for 48 hours.

How do I book?

On dalicenca.pt or reservations@dalicenca.pt.

06 · Go

Dá Licença

Estremoz, Portugal

What stood out was the dusk pool with two chairs, the hall where a metal fireplace hangs from the ceiling, and a bedroom that opens onto one orange tree. Vitor Borges and Franck Laigneau write that this is the landscape where they stopped looking.

From where you are
Distance appears once we know where you are.

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