Farmhouse for sale in Almada, Setúbal, Portugal

Quinta dos Espadeiros is situated in the municipality of Almada and represents a true oasis in the urban environment. This admirable landscape features lagoons surrounded by trees and plants, adding to the architectural-cultural heritage formed by the house and chapel.

The eastern side of the L-shaped ground floor features an imposing entrance hallway with natural light, a quadrangular slab tank, a hall, a library, a bedroom, two bathrooms, and a storage room. The kitchen and the dovecote, the oldest part of this property, are also on this level. All these rooms have direct access to the courtyards, gardens and swimming pool.

A set of buildings includes an olive oil press, wine cellar and old barn.

At the southern end of the farm, there is an approximately 800 sq m “Saint Gobain” double-glazed greenhouse fitted with temperature control and monitoring systems that contain an aquatic system equipped with aquariums with water filtering and renovation systems.

This two-building property has 1,315 sq m of gross private area and is on a 64,507 sq m plot.

The main house has an entrance hallway with a tank, a dining room with a fireplace, a kitchen, a large lounge with a fireplace, a library, two bedrooms with a living room, two bathrooms, a hallway, a chapel and a storage room.

The secondary house features a lounge and dining room with fireplaces, a suite, two bedrooms and three bathrooms.

The basement of this house comprises an L-shaped lounge with a fireplace, an industrial kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom.

It also has a separate house with a lounge, fireplace, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, an office and a kitchen.

A central passageway and a 17th/18th-century chapel interconnect the primary, secondary, and basement houses.

Almada is a Portuguese city in the District of Setúbal and the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. It is the ninth-largest town in Portugal, with around 95,000 inhabitants.

It is the municipal seat and is 70.21 sq km in area, with the municipality split into five parishes with a total of 174,030 inhabitants (2011). The municipality is bounded to the east by Seixal, to the south by Sesimbra and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean. To the north and northeast, it is bordered by the Tagus Estuary, which is opposite Lisbon and Oeiras municipalities.

The county received a charter from King Sancho I in the year 1190. Along with Lisbon, Sintra and Palmela, it is one of the oldest administrative divisions within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Almada, awarded city status in 1973, includes Costa da Caparica, which was made a city in 2004.

Its main points of interest include the Cristo Rei National Sanctuary, the Capuchins Convent and Gardens, Monte da Cruz, the riverside zone, parks and gardens (Chão das Artes botanical garden, the Palácio/Casa da Cerca – Contemporary Art Centre, the Almada Castle Garden, the Costa da Caparica Fossil Cliff, among others). In addition to its central location, it has shopping areas and good access to the capital via the 25 April Bridge, the Sul do Tejo metro - an environmentally-friendly electric transport system with three routes and 19 stops with connections to other public transport services - shopping areas, the university and more densely populated sites, the Fertagus railway and the Transtejo ferries with two routes to Lisbon: Cacilhas - Cais do Sodré and Trafaria - Porto Brandão - Belém.

Please note all distances and measurements are approximate and, for security reasons, are not representative of the exact location of the property. For more information on the precise location of the property and its surrounding area, please contact the listed Property Adviser.