Behind the beach there is a pine forest full of flowers

The Mount Vilarinha created three walking routes for guests in partnership with Walking'Sagres. To show that the village of Carrapateira in Lagos, is not only beach.
The smell of cistus starts right when it turns in the direction of Mount Auburn, off road surrounded by greenery and the giant propellers of the wind farm to mark the landscape. This year the rain helped and the fields are full of water, and bright green. In summer, the scenario will be different now, brown and dry, with the cars they headed to the beach. The winding road follows, we now Bordeira and its white houses and silent, and Carrapateira village in the municipality of Aljezur approaches. In addition to the starboard air is rosemary. Are strong smells that make up the scenario a spring that soon, but it arrived.

Deep in Paradise Valley and in the Natural Park of Southwest Alentejo and Costa Vicentina, a herd of cows crosses slowly dirt road, swaying the clappers at your own pace. Hidden among the vegetation is Mount of Vilarinha, a unit of rural tourism that João Pedro Cunha, owner of the Sea Restaurant watermills in Sintra, did not rest until his feet. Were ten years papers and bureaucracies to get the license it needed to build the houses painted white, following the traditional method of mud, roofed in sugarcane. In 34 acres of land he bought, wanted to sow tourism accommodation in family, near Carrapateira.

"The choice of location had to do with surfing and spearfishing and my teenage years spent here. It was all wild, an adventure, and I did not rest until I sold a house in Praia Grande, Sintra, to buy land. Been here were foreigners to value Carrapateira "says João Pedro, while making a tour of the trails. The gardens, manicured, integrated into the autochthonous vegetation. Boars that sometimes at night if wandering nearby were not scared away. "We placed cameras with infra-red for the shooting," he reveals.

The lot is divided into three zones: the Casa do Forno, Casa da Ribeira (consisting of four houses T0) and the Houses Angle (3 houses T1). The leakage was from T0 in the Ribeira House, next to the pool and located in the lower unit, near the river. All rooms have a small patio overlooking the valley.

Inside, the space is large and no doors (except in the bathroom). There is a small dining area with a kitchen equipped with everything needed for cooking. And a living. The furniture was made to measure. There are bedside tables lined with cork, stone walls contrast with the view that other painted white, a double bed covered in white.

On the hillside lies the Casa do Forno. There are three bedrooms with double bed and private bathroom, two of which have a living room with fireplace. At Casas de Cima is a bed on the terrace to enjoy the view. The living room also has a fireplace and dining area and the kitchen is equipped, including with washing clothes. The decor is simple. A mixture of beach and countryside reflected in earth tones, white and gray, and the screens with references to the sea that populate the walls.