VIDEOS & DOCS

Urban part:
The tower room and the tower are the ex-libris of the Quinta, the room has a vault shape, one of the windows has a granite frame on the Manueline style exterior. This room gives access to a staircase to the spiral tower with portholes. At the top of the tower there is a terrace with a wide view. Roofs and windows are well maintained. A large leisure space surrounds the house, with four centuries-old lime trees. It also has two corners, accessed by a staircase, one of which we call an avenue, with many hazelnut trees and a small stream and the other with a fountain. The property has two more urban books of houses that are in ruins.
Agricultural part:
There is an area on the plateau suitable for agriculture, sowing cereals and hay, grazing, two orchards and a horticultural area. It already had a vineyard (the property is in a region demarcated for wine production, with great potential for this purpose). On the slope there are two growing pine forests measuring around 7 ha, and an area where a tree cut was made.
recent pine trees. It has 435 cork oaks with cork harvesting carried out in 2021. It has around 100 chestnut trees. The farm is rich in water, there are 3 ponds, springs and two tanks.
Agricultural facilities:
It has an oven, a dryer, three haystacks, two bars, two cowsheds, a court for
mules and horses, and a pigsty. The agricultural holding is under lease, with automatic renewal of the contract. Pines and cork oaks are income for the owners.

The property is outside the scope of IPAR and is included in the MUNICIPAL DIRECTOR PLAN OF PORTALEGRE REGULATIONS (final and full version containing the changes from 2013 and 2014) Designation Parish Location Period Property Use Classification Proposal Quinta dos Cantarinhos Ribeira de Nisa - 16th century - - Property to Preserve

The oldest reference to the chapel of São Bento is due to Father Diogo Pereira Sotto Maior (1616). Describing some farms located on the outskirts of the city of Portalegre, after praising the past grandeur of Manuel de Sousa's property (today called "dos Cantarinhos")