A house above the river
Nine rooms in a restored quinta at Pinhão, with terraced vines to the water and a kitchen that cooks what the valley grows.
Nine rooms, no two alike
Linen, shutters, and a valley you can hear from the bed.
One long table
Lunch on the terrace, dinner inside, both cooked from the valley.
Stay a while
Maison Lumière was a working quinta for two hundred years before it was anything else. We kept the granite, the shutters and the long table, and added nine rooms, hot water and very good coffee.
There is no reception desk. Someone will meet you at the gate.
The lounge
Two sofas, a wood fire from October, and the shelf of paperbacks other guests left behind. Breakfast is served here when the terrace is too cold.
The table
One sitting, one menu, at eight. Everybody eats together. It is the part of the week most guests write to us about afterwards.
The rooms
Nine rooms, no two the same. Every one has the valley in it somewhere.
Vale
Corner room, first floor, two windows on the valley. The largest of the nine.
Oliveira
White, oak and very little else. Morning light from seven.
Torre
The tower room, under the beams, up a flight of its own.
Rio
Ground floor, glazed doors, straight out into the garden.
Alecrim
Small, high, and built around a stone bath by the window.
We came for two nights and moved the rest of the trip around so we could stay four.
From the journal
Three weeks of harvest
28 Sep 2026The vindima runs from the middle of September and takes over everything.
The olive year
12 Jul 2026Forty trees, one very long Saturday, and enough oil for the kitchen.
On coffee
03 May 2026Why there is a machine on the landing and nobody minds when you use it.
The shelf other people built
19 Feb 2026Four hundred paperbacks nobody chose, in nine languages.
Come and stay
Rooms are held by email. Tell us the nights and how many of you there are, and we will write back the same day.