Ground-floor, with a private stone step into the garden and the sound of the shore at the pillow.
The house
Built from the cliff's own limestone, opened to the sea on every side.
Casa Maré began as a fisherman's storehouse in 1911. We kept the thick walls and the long shaded loggia, and added only what the light asked for: deep linen beds, hand-glazed tiles, a saltwater pool cut into the rock.
12Rooms & suites
40 mAbove the tide
1911Stone walls
Rooms
Three ways to wake to the water
Every room faces the sea. The difference is how much of it you can hold in one glance.
A sitting room under the original vaulted loggia, a bath carved from a single block of local stone.
The top of the house. Windows on three sides, a rooftop plunge pool, and the horizon as your only neighbour.
Experiences
Days shaped by the tide table
Nothing is scheduled that the sea would not approve of. Ask at the desk, or simply follow the light.
06:40 · sunrise
Swim at first light
The saltwater pool is warmest before the wind arrives. Towels and coffee wait on the ledge.
09:00 · low tide
Rock-pool walk
Our marine biologist neighbour leads a slow walk along the exposed shelf, naming anemones.
13:30 · lunch
Grill on the terrace
Whatever came in on the boats this morning, cooked over vine cuttings, eaten under the loggia.
17:00 · golden hour
Sail to the caves
A wooden boat, a quiet skipper, and the grottoes of Ponta da Piedade lit from within.
21:30 · dark sky
Stars from the roof
The village lights go off at nine. A telescope, blankets, and someone who knows the constellations.
Guests
“We came for three nights and stayed nine. I have never slept the way I slept with that window open.”Ines & Tomas — Vienna
“The house does not try to impress you. It just keeps quietly being the most beautiful place you have ever been.”Margaret H. — Edinburgh
“The grill lunch on the terrace, the sail into the caves, the stars. My children are still talking about the octopus.”The Okafor family — Lagos