The "Casa da Figueira Grande" In the heat of heart of "Cova da Beira", is born the "Casa da Figueira Grande" (House of the Great Fig tree), architectonic work of the principles of Century XIX, been in the uses and customs of a property typically of the "Beira". Ample green spaces wait here for you, so that you breathe the true air of the field, the tranquillity of its landscape and the flavors of everything with it's nostalgia. To scape from de uproar of the life in the city, we have the ideal therapy so that you can feel truely and totaly free. We offer to the tourist the opportunity to make simple tasks (to make the bread, the cheese, the jams), we taught the ways of the nature, visits to him to the origins of our history, provided snow sports, see our activities. This project has been conceived by its proprietors, youngs and even dynamics persons, Ana Paula and João Paulo Carreira. Connected from some years the hotel industry: she is a marketing manager and he is a professor in hotel managmet. For the owners of the "CASA DA FIGUEIRA GRANDE", the rural tourism is a new concept of tourist supply, where the quality is in the good art receiving. In the gastronomy a strong familiar tradition exists. For that reason, we have created a service of banquets that came to enrich much the gastronomic patrimony of the region. By all this, will be worth the trouble to experience our guest-room of this charming region. -- Home   -- Back