Location: Penela
A “residencial” hotel with four rooms. Two of which are twins and two are doubles.
There is one large shared bathroo with toilet, bath/shower, bidet and sink.
Each bedroom has a sink, tv, wardrobe, bed and free wifi internet access.
The residencial has a great location in the center of town above a small faimily restaurant and cafe. The restaurant serves lunch and dinner.
Near to banks, pharmacies, cafes and walking distance from our estate agency!
The owner is also a taxi driver, so he can pick you up from the nearest train station and take you straight to the accommodation.
25 euros per night from April to October. 20 euros per night from November to March.
Penela
AIRPORT DISTANCES:
Porto Airport is 160km away, an estimated journey time of 2 hours.
Lisbon Airport is 207km an estimated journey time of 2 hours 23 minutes.
CITY AND BEACH DISTANCES:
The historic city of Coimbra is 35 minutes away whilst the beaches of Figueira da Foz are a quick hop down the motorway, being roughly 1 hour 15 minutes.
THE AREA:
Penela is a beautiful, cared for village community located in the centre of the Central Portugal (Beira Litoral) region. It plays host to many traditional festas throughout the year and has also appeared in the Guinness Book of records as the place where the largest game of cards is held every year!
The council are also keen to encourage development, and have built swimming pools, cinemas, libraries and internet cafes within their jurisdiction.
Penela is an area surrounded by Roman ruins and historic castles, which are some of the most beautiful, historic and well preserved in Iberia. The town itself was established as long ago as 1137. The medieval part of Penela deserves a visit: among the houses you can wander through the Manueline style pillory, the Renaissance Church of Stª Eufémia and the beautiful Misericordia Square and church.
Local activities must include gastronomy and walking. Guided walks in both Portuguese and English are common, but you should feel free to wander down the public footpaths through forests and fields as much as you like. The views are often spectacular.
NEAREST MARKET:
The nearest weekly market is held every Thursday in the town. On market day this sleepy town experiences a little hustle and bustle. Residents from outlaying villages arrive to sell their garden grown vegetables, self-raised meat produce and fish and the general ambience is one of meeting friends, having a chat and getting the week’s essentials. Everything you can think of is on sale here, including the occasional live chicken or goat!
The best time to pop in to the market is between ten or eleven in the morning, when the best produce is still available and fresh.
LOCAL ROADS:
The roads in the immediate area are all of tarmac or, in some cases, maintained stone track. Any car would be comfortable driving throughout this area.
AMENITIES:
Penela is a beautiful historic market town with all of the modern facilities you would expect from a larger town. The council have been quick to improve the lives of residents and those in surrounding villages who rely on the town for health and education. Penela features supermarkets, a post office and modern hospital & health centre with English speaking staff. There are also at least two modern dental practises, again, with English speaking staff. Schooling is available from crèche until technical college. Surprising to most ex-pats is the wide range of out of school activities held in the area.
The Portugal of old that we all love still exists; bread delivery vans still deliver bread to your door each day, for example, as well as the luxury of some bread and cheese in your neighbours wine cellar (adeiga).
Within and immediately around Penela there are also several traditional restaurants each serving their speciality version of Portuguese classics and home grown wines.
Penela Council | Terras do Sico | Tourism in Penela | WikiPedia | Blog about Penela
“ We have just completed the purchase of our dream home in Portugal through Coimbra Property Shop. Having spent many months trawling through internet adverts without much success, we decided to save time and use an estate agent. We had very strict ideas of what we did not want to buy but only a vague idea of what we really wanted.
Grahams and his assistants approach to our dilemma was both organised and professional and helped narrow the search down to just a handful of properties. Grahams calm, non pressurised approach to viewing the houses gave us the time and confidence to make the right decision and to get the house at the price we wanted.
The legalities were very straight forward. The paperwork was perfect, the procedure simple and the solicitor Graham organised for us was very thorough. Very glad that we met Graham and used his business over the other choices available in the area. We would thoroughly recommend anyone wanting to either buy or sell a house here in Portugal to look no further than the Coimbra Property Shop. Thanks again Graham you found us a great house.
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DK, Portugal
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