“As soon as some giant iron chains appear, hanging from the walls, that’s it.” Even before reaching the municipality of Torre de Moncorvo, this is how the neighboring lands give directions to Quinta da Terrincha and the reference is really justified: the weight of those padlocks worthy of the anchors of a Titanic or RMS Lusitania, and it is this aesthetic element in solid iron that immediately identifies the section of the property that houses its three main gates. But if these thousands of meters of chains betray the large extension of the farm, the fact is that the wall in question only delimits, as we later discover, a tiny portion of the 380 hectares of fertile land surrounding the main buildings of the rural tourism unit. comprising a 19th-century manor house with six luxury suites, 15 independent villas, a restaurant, swimming pool, oil mill, cheese factory and chapel, as well as a venue for events and various structures to support agricultural work.
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