A Place To Relax With Nature In Harmony - Rural Tourism, Rooms for rent in São Brás Alportel, Algarve
Imagine a large breakfast with…
Several kinds of bread (brown, homemade, carob, seeds), freshly made orange juice, homemade apple and cherry marmalade, honey, various quality of cheese, ham, smoked ham, eggs, organic fruit, salad, fresh coffee, organic tea, our traditional almond cakes like almond pie, carob pie with lemon cream and other surprises that will make your day full of energy.
We are a country side hotel in the Centre of Algarve, near Faro.
Our “Guest House” is a refurbishment of a very antique countryside house that was built in 1931; Our materials are ecological like cork (the best in the World), clay, solid wood, stone, ceramic, a mixture of tradition and modern parts as the floor, handmade terracotta ceramics.
Mattresses and linen are fresh, comfortable and top quality – A peaceful and relaxing spot for your holidays in the Algarve; Our rooms and swimming pool are fully prepared to welcome disabled people.
The translation for “Quinta dos Tesouros” is “Treasure Farm”…, where nature keeps it’s great secrets…
A Suite, Double “Delux” or Single rooms, a large garden, salted water swimming pool, and a “collection” of ancient trees like carob and olive trees as well as multiple choice of rare plants and flowers are treasures revealed to our guests….
All our rooms are equipped the following facilities:
……Air Conditioning …….Mini-Bar
……..Built-in Safe …….Satellite TV
……..Free internet Wi-Fi …….Kettle
We can also provide you with:
………Free Parking …….Swimming Pool (Salted Water)
..…….Landry (extra payment) .…….Pool Bar
.……..Pastry shop ……Massage (extra payment)
Strongly anchored in a wide range of experience, staying at Quinta dos Tesouros is intended to make you discover the secrets of the Algarve.
The activities provided by the farm are varied and favor the constant contact with nature. Choose the experiences that you most appreciate and long live the genuine Algarve:
*Check the Culture Agenda through the link: Cultural Agenda
Quinta dos Tesouros | Pure Nature Tourism
Quinta dos Tesouros is a rural tourism located in the ‘heart’ of the Algarve, more precisely in São Brás de Alportel, a portuguese village in Faro’s district, Algarve’s region and sub-region.
On Quinta dos Tesouros, a typical Algarves farm, everything has been designed to provide the comfort and calm you are looking for. Here you will find pleasant spaces that emphasize peace and well-being, relaxing landscapes and a personalized and quality service to make you feel at peace and can replenish their own energy.
Because the well-being of our customers is very important to us, we give primary importance for the description and privacy. We put ourselves at your disposal to provide you with a perfect stay.
The invitation for living a memorable experience where calm and tranquility live in perfect harmony with the surrounding nature.
Quinta dos Tesouros has a gourmet pastries”- Tesouros da Serra and O Ouro do Barrocal – where you can indulge yourself with the best regional flavors and acquire products and homemade items, or even a souvenir to remember your stay.
It was 32 years ago which began what is now considered a case of success and entrepreneurship in the Algarve. Fatima Galego began confectioner activity in her mothers wood oven and with the rapid success of her business, adapted some small facilities in a nook of her fathers cork factory.
With the passage of time and success in sweets, was purchasing some adjacent lands, taking advantage of her father’s old cork factory and of her grandfather’s old house, thus forming Quinta dos Tesouros, which currently develops three business, always with the goal of providing the highest quality, because, it is the quality that makes the difference:
With capability of performing all type of events, the farm, based in Sítio dos Tesouros (São Brás de Alportel) also has a tea room, which serves only tea made from wild flowers, according to teachings and family traditions.
At the factory are produced sweet made with genuine regional and traditional products such as almond, fig, honey, carob, date and corn planted in the farm. Fátima Galego is proud to produce sweets ordered to the highest government events. Place of passage of various birds, the farm receives tourist routes for observation of the various species as well as groups of tourists that daily visit an ancient olive tree with 2000 years old and a menhir.
Fatima takes these synergies with the arrival of tourists to her farm to make a small story of the region, showing some aromatic and medicinal herbs, and by the time, explains the importance and the impact of carob in the region, making it an area especially good with medicinal air for people with respiratory problems.
Traditional manufactory almond cakes
Farm House São Bras de Alportel
Almond Cakes São Bras de Alportel
Born on the 22nd of March of 1959 in Tesoureiro (S. Brás de Alportel) and since 21 years that dedicates herself to sweets. The success of this hand confectioner and imagination full, is due to three factors: her grandmother, a typical and conventional baker who taught her all the secrets, knowledge and flavors forgotten in time, and to her stubbornness and gluttony, to which she mixes a good dose of creativity.
Since whenever her big goal in life was to be independent and strive to realize her dreams. She started working at 18 years old as an accountant in her fathers cork factory, as there was no work at the time for portuguese people, there were only jobs for returnees newcomers from Africa.
Despite all her efforts to devote to the family business, soon she had enough of being so pressed by her father and decided to create her own independence, and decided to proceed with her project of life when she became pregnant of her second child. Her daughter ended up being born on the 1st of January of 1981 and Fatima began working on her great adventure of confectioner at the 4th of August of 1981.
Her history with sweets accompanies the growth of her daughter. Just over thirty years ago she was offered 15kg of sugar as a gift for the birth of her daughter, once common tradition in the region. Decided to use the offer, remembered to start making cakes using also almonds that had from family farming, preserving the flavors, knowledge and ancient traditions of sweets, as it was the case of peeling the regions almond after being soaked in boiling water.
Made the first caramel and almond pies it was time to sell them. Used to frequent Quarteiras beach and always attracted by the scent of their gluttony, made some stops by the pastries. As she thought that sweets were not up to a glutton with critical sense, she went home and invented.
Results were quite pleasing to the palate and it was so that Fatima remembered to try to sell her sweets to some pastries at Faro. On the first day she took 5 almond pies and what was her astonishment when she returned home with empty hands. So on, on the second day she made 10 to pitch at Quarteira and, like the day before, not any left. Finally, on the third day and after having sold 15 pies, she concluded that this would be a good business to invest. Persistent and determined, Fátima Galego started so its connection to the Algarve sweets.
Her baker’s fame was hanging from one side to the other, even leaving accepting jobs in banks to follow what gave her pleasure to do. Fatima was spoken, censored and invited by her family to give up, because this baker’s work was an undignified activity for a girl with studies whose descent was from a wealthy Cova da Mudas family, that own almost all the cork of the saw, by her mothers family and by her fathers family, corks manufacturer with Jewish descended.
Despite all the obstacles that were crossing on her way, and because “dream commands life,” Fatima managed without the support of anyone to open a small factory of traditional cakes and today is one of the oldest and success confectioners of the region.