--- title: Say your vows under a medieval tower on a Portuguese estate description: >- A chapel of its own, and a Roman ruin a kilometer down the track. Take the whole estate for your wedding, and keep it for two unhurried nights. canonical: >- https://peachperfectweddings.com/venues/portugal/elope-to-a-homey-hotel-amidst-the-vineyards-of-alentejo date_updated: '2026-08-24' author: Claudia, null image: >- https://edculdonasdlqjrowlzt.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/cms/ppwyqsd4v5bmc85?height=1000&width=1000&resize=contain&quality=80 --- # Designer wine hotel for weddings on the Alentejo plains One wedding happens here a day, and nobody sets a curfew on it. Between the vows and the last song there are Lusitano horses, two pools, and a tower to watch the sun set from. It suits couples who want everyone in one place, with the plain going quiet for miles around. ## Spaces & Capacity | Pers. | Purpose(s) | Ref. | | --- | --- | --- | | up to 60 | Ceremony | Capela de Nossa Senhora da Conceição | | up to 60 | Ceremony, Drinks reception | Big Gates | | N/A | Ceremony, Drinks reception | Not available | | up to 60 | Ceremony | Vinha | | N/A | Ceremony | Not available | | up to 60 | Ceremony | Tree Garden | | up to 60 | Dinner, Party | Pateo | | up to 60 | Dinner, Party | Sala Cortejo de Baco | | N/A | Welcome dinner, Rehearsal dinner, Drinks reception | Not available | | N/A | Drinks reception, After-party | Not available | | N/A | Drinks reception | Not available | | N/A | Drinks reception, Party | Not available | | up to 38 | Accommodation | Rooms | ## About this venue ### Highlights Torre de Palma is a working wine estate on the Alto Alentejo plain. Its tower was first recorded in 1338. Nineteen rooms and suites are spread across the old manor, the converted stables and the farm cottages. There's a winery, a spa with two pools, and a stable of Lusitano horses you can ride out through the vines. A kilometer down the track lie the ruins of a Roman villa. That's where the estate got its name. ### Style The house calls it country chic, and that's about right. Whitewashed walls, ochre-painted corners, terracotta pantiles and rust-red stable doors set the tone outside. Inside, the architect Joao Mendes Ribeiro left the old rooms thick-walled and beamed. Then he added new wings in clean white volumes, with round windows and sliding glass. Rosarinho Gabriel furnished them with vintage pieces and local textiles. It reads as a farm that grew comfortable, not a hotel dropped into a field. ### History The farmstead dates to 1338, and the tower that gave it its name is medieval. The Basilii, a Roman family, lived just up the track. Their villa was occupied from the first century to the fifth, and it's counted among the largest in Iberia. A plough struck the ruins in 1947. Its mosaics of the Muses and of racehorses are now national treasures in Lisbon. The Rebelo family, pharmacists before they were hoteliers, restored the buildings and opened the hotel in 2014. ### Location You'll find the estate at Vaiamonte, in the Monforte countryside of the Portalegre district. Monforte itself is six kilometers away, about thirteen minutes by car. Beyond the walls it's all wheat stubble, cork oak, olives and vines, flat to the horizon. Estremoz is thirty-three kilometers off and Evora eighty-one. If you're weighing up [places to get married in Portugal](/wedding-venues-in-portugal), this one sits deep inland. No neighboring building is in sight, and the sky gets dark enough to pick out the Milky Way. ### Excursions The Roman villa is the obvious first stop, a kilometer away and open to visit. Marvao, a walled village on a crag, is fifty-five kilometers north. Estremoz is thirty-three kilometers west and Campo Maior forty-seven east, near the Spanish border. Evora, an hour and a quarter away, is the region's UNESCO city. It suits guests who want [a Portuguese destination wedding](/destinations/portugal) with a few days of driving around it. ### Transport Most guests fly into Lisbon and drive from there. It's 206 kilometers and around two and a half hours, so it's worth setting off in daylight. Beja is closer at 160 kilometers but sees little scheduled traffic. Badajoz, over the Spanish border, is nearer still. There's free parking inside the walls and two chargers for electric cars. [Our planner in Portugal](/wedding-planner-in-portugal) books the transfers and holds the arrival times with the hotel, so guests are met. ### Accessibility Most of the bedrooms are on the ground floor, and one is specially adapted for guests with limited mobility. Moving between the buildings means gravel and pebble-cobbled paths. They're firm underfoot but not smooth. The chapel and the courtyards are on the level. The tower's roof terrace is reached by stairs, so it's worth planning around that one. Ask us for anything more specific and we'll check it with the hotel for you. ### Accommodation Nineteen rooms and suites sleep thirty-eight, across the manor house, the old stables and the farm cottages. Each has air conditioning, and underfloor heating in the bathroom. The junior suites have wood-burning fireplaces for winter. The master suite sits in the main house with its own small pool. For a wedding you take all nineteen for at least two nights, so nobody has to drive home. Check-in is from three, check-out by midday. ### Ceremony There are five places to say your vows here. The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceicao holds a canonical licence, so Catholic ceremonies can be celebrated inside it. Couples have also married civilly out in the olive grove. The spot that shows up in most of our photos is the Big Gates. Marble piers and iron gates open straight onto the plain, and chairs go out on the cobbles. The vineyard and the pine grove work too, and there's an indoor room if the weather turns. ### Outdoor spaces The Pateo is the main courtyard, and it takes long tables for dinner under the stars. The Tree Garden and the vineyard rows are both used for ceremonies. Old olives shade a lounge of low sofas and kilim cushions through the hot part of the afternoon. The pool deck has a pergola bar. Best of all is the tower's battlemented roof, where a drink at sunset comes with the plain going gold in every direction. ### Reception Dinner goes either into the Sala Cortejo de Baco or out in the Pateo, both seating up to eighty. Long bare-wood tables, white linen, olive and gypsophila down the middle, candles and fire pits when it cools. There's no curfew, so the party runs as late as you like. Amplified music outdoors is fine, and there's a bar and a lounge for the last stretch. Have a look at [our wedding packages in Portugal](/portugal) for what we take care of. ### Catering The kitchen cooks Alentejo food with a light hand. Tomato soup the local way, black pork cheeks with orange, octopus with mashed potato. Vegetables and herbs come from the estate's own garden. Cheese and oil come from producers nearby. Catering is in-house, so there's no outside caterer to bring in or brief. Tell us about allergies and diets early, and we'll get the menu built around them. ### Drinks Torre de Palma makes its own wine, seven varietals off seven hectares of vines. They're pressed in small marble presses in the adega. Reds lean on Aragonez, Alicante Bouschet and Touriga Nacional, whites on Antao Vaz and Arinto. You can taste in the barrel room, at the table, or up in the tower at sunset. It's the natural thing to pour at your own dinner. Guests can walk out to the rows it came from. ### Activities The stables are the surprise here. There are Lusitano horses to ride out through the vines, and an arena for a first lesson. If you'd rather stay on the ground, you can help with the grooming instead. Otherwise there's a heated indoor pool and an unheated outdoor one, a hammam and a jacuzzi, and bikes to borrow. The spa works with grape seed and honey. At night the sky is dark enough that stargazing is a booked activity, not a happy accident. ### Exclusivity One wedding a day, and it's yours. Taking all nineteen rooms buys the whole estate with them. Both pools, the jacuzzi and hammam, the restaurant and bar, the chapel, the tower, the winery, the olive grove and the vineyard. Nobody else checks in. The trade is that two-night minimum. Most couples end up wanting it anyway, for a welcome dinner the night before and a slow breakfast after.