The estate
Quinta da Barroca
Quinta da Barroca, is located in the Naçarães Valley on the south bank of the Douro Valley, in the World Heritage Site, in Armamar. Founded in 1989, it has emerged in the region as the first Agro-Tourism property. The place is shaped by a rustic landscape where tranquility, tradition and comfort come together in a memorable experience. The exceptionality of its location, allows those who visit us to find an excellent centrality of tourist interest in two regions simultaneously, the Douro Region and the Távora Varosa Region.


The surroundings of Quinta da Barroca have a natural beauty, always in line with the agricultural cycles of the vineyards and the extensive mountain apple orchards. The environment of nature in its pure form allows us to make pleasant pedagogical hiking and cycling tours in all its extension. Quinta da Barroca has several corners, where silence and comfort prevail.
Our offer provides diverse leisure moments, with two swimming pools (an outdoor pool and an indoor pool) tennis court, fitness area, bar and a gaming room.
Ideal to enjoy the peace and quiet, silence and tranquillity, and escape from the urban stress and revitalize your energies.
A stay at Quinta da Barroca is always an unforgettable moment…
Quinta da barroca
Here, we live the tradition!
Agriculture
Quinta da Barroca has an extensive agricultural area
Our farm has an extensive area with more than 24 acres of land to be used for agricultural production, from grapes, pear, cherry, loquat, Kiwis and mountain apple.
The agricultural experiences of Quinta da Barroca are simple moments that will mark your memories, such as the smell of wet hearth, planting or harvesting vegetables in the educational garden, picking fruits directly from the orchard, breathing fresh air…
Feeling the countryside as it truly is, is a principle that Quinta da Barroca presents to its customers. Participate in the agricultural activities of our garden and feel the nature in its purest state. Each ingredient we produce here tells a different story.
We want your stay at Quinta da Barroca to be unforgettable and experienced with those who are the most dearest to you.
Take with you a remarkable experience and memory.
Destination
Quinta da Barroca is an enchanted place in the heart of the Alto Douro wine region
On the south bank of the Douro Valley, in the municipality of Armamar, Quinta da Barroca is an enchanted place in the heart of the Alto Douro wine region. A perfect setting framed by a rugged landscape, where friendship and family are evoked in an environment full of real moments.
Douro Valley
The Douro Valley could as easily be called the enchanted valley, such is the beauty and magic that its landscapes offer.
Departing from Porto, where the river flows into the sea and where the Douro wines (table wines and Port wine), produced on its hillsides, also end up, there are various ways to get to know this cultural landscape, listed as a World Heritage Site: by road, by train, on a cruise boat and even by helicopter. None will leave you indifferent.
A Route between the Viewpoints
Following a route between the viewpoints that offer the best vistas, you need to cross the river from north to south and back again. But along the way you can admire breathtaking landscapes over the river and visit vineyards, towns and villages until you reach Miranda do Douro, the point at which the river enters Portugal.
Start at Vila Nova de Gaia with a visit to the lodges where Port wine is aged. Here you will get to know this wine a little better, taking the opportunity – how could you do otherwise? – to taste the precious nectar. And you can still see the old rabelo boats on the river, the vessels that carried the wine from the quintas where it is produced to the mouth of river, before the various dams that made the river navigable were built.

Pinhão railway station

Castle of Numão

Douro Natural Park

Miranda do Douro

Barca de Alva
In Peso da Régua, the Douro Museum will provide a different perspective on the region and wine growing. Not far away, on the south bank, is Lamego, one of the most beautiful cities in Northern Portugal, located at the base of an immense blue and white tiled flight of steps leading to the Shrine of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios. In Pinhão, right by the river, the railway station is a must-see to admire its ancient tiles dedicated to the cultivation of vines.
Before arriving in Pocinho, you can make a detour on the south bank to visit the castle of Numão and enjoy the view over the skyline. A little further to the east is the Vale do Coa Archaeological Park, an open-air rock art gallery, classified as a World Heritage Site, and the attached Museum in Vila Nova de Foz Coa.
Once you get to Barca de Alva, you enter the International Douro Natural Park, as the river from here to Miranda do Douro makes the border between Portugal and Spain. At this point, the course of the river narrows, running between tall escarpments until it reaches the small border town on entering Portugal.
The Douro Wine Region Valley, up to Barca de Alva, is the oldest demarcated wine region in the world. First, the river carved the deep valleys out of the land and then Man transformed the schist mountains into soil and walls and planted the vines, green in summer, flame-coloured in autumn. With knowledge handed down from generation to generation, he inclined the terraces to expose the vines to the rays of the sun which give the grapes the warmth that the wine craves. It was from the fruits of the land and Man’s labour that this unique wine and landscape were made.
Lamego
Roughly 12 kilometres from the banks of the Douro, Lamego enjoyed a period of great prosperity in the eighteenth century when the city produced the so-called “fine wine” that later gave rise to the world famous Port wine.
The fact that Lamego is situated so close to the banks of the river Douro means that there are a variety of walks and tours offering remarkable panoramic views over the extensive valleys planted with the vineyards that produce the famous Port wine.
The Church's powerful influence over many centuries
The Church’s powerful influence over many centuries, later curtailed by the suppression of the Religious Orders in 1834, has left Lamego with a large number of churches revealing the classical influences popular at the time of their construction in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Whenever you pass by one of these, make sure to enter inside and appreciate the stories recounted on the azulejos lining the walls, the sacred paintings and the beautiful carved and gilded wood decorations added in the baroque period.

Azulejos stories

the Church of the Convent of Santa Cruz

The Lamego Museum

Starways to Heaven

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Remédios

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Remédios
Particularly impressive are the Church of the Convent of Santa Cruz, offering a delightful view over the city and the sumptuous and monumental baroque shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary, in the form of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, who, from her lofty position some 600 metres above the town, responds to the appeals of distressed worshippers by granting them a remedy for their afflictions. Each year, the city pays Our Lady much-deserved homage by devoting a festival to her – the splendid Romaria de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios.
At the opposite end of the city, but in direct line with the staircase leading to the shrine of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, stands a beautiful eighteenth-century palace, built in an elegant and sober baroque style, which was once the residence of the bishops of Lamego. Carved above the front door is the coat of arms of the bishop D. Manuel Vasconcelos Pereira, who was responsible for the rebuilding and enlargement of the old episcopal palace. About 1940, this space was altered to house the extremely rich collection of the Lamego Museum, an essential item on the list of all visitors.
Peso da Régua
It is thought that the town´s name originated from the name of a Roman house that once stood here – the “Villa Reguela”.
Its great development was, however, only to begin after 1756 with the creation of the Real Companhia Geral da Agricultura das Vinhas do Alto Douro (Royal Company of Vine-Growers from the Alto Douro Region), which set up the world’s first ever demarcated region for wine production.
A Route between the Viewpoints
Situated on the banks of the River Douro, Peso da Régua played a fundamental role in the production and sale of Port wine, for it was from here that the barrels were transported in the special boats known as barcos rabelos to Vila Nova de Gaia, where the wine was left to age in the local wine lodges.
In this region, the vines are grown on terraced slopes leading down to the river, providing visitors with a series of spectacular views, which are best admired from the area’s many viewpoints, such as those of São Leonardo at Galafura and Santo António do Loureiro.
In the surrounding area, the spa of Caldas de Moledo, which is situated on the right bank of the River Douro, has its own moorage points and is a most delightful place for those wishing to spend a relaxing holiday.

Ponte Rodoviaria da Regua

São Leonardo at Galafura
