The Centre & Lisbon Coast

On the Lisbon Coast we feature luxury villa rentals with private pools located around Cascais and Estoril. Going a bit more inland into the Centre, you will find holiday homes in unique settings, yet still so close to the capital.

Lisbon is contemporary and buzzing, with an insatiable appetite for food, music, nightlife and culture. Its spectacular blend of modern architecture and ancient buildings, quaint and charming cobble-stone quarters and its famous clanking trams, make it a great city for sigh-seeing.

Once a quaint old fishing port, Cascais and its neighbour Estoril on the Portuguese Riviera, are now glamorous resorts with a wide range of restaurants, shops and a world-class marina located 30 minutes from Lisbon.  Estoril was a renowned den of spies during World War II and the playground of many exiled royal families; the romance and glamour of those by-gone days still clinging to its old buildings.

There are many fairy-tale palaces, gothic monasteries, medieval castles and classified UNESCO World Heritage Sites to explore around the capital including Sintra, Mafra, Óbidos, Alcobaça, Batalha and Tomar. And despite its world-famous reputation of the largest ever surfed waves, Nazare on the coast still has a distinct “fisherman village” character, with its beach docked boats and lines of drying fish.

A relatively fresh maritime climate also allows for some wonderful table wines to be produced in the region - vines have been grown north and south of the Tagus River since Roman times.