FROM SOIL TO SOUL
A licensed five-star hotel project in a protected oak forest, fifty-five minutes north of Lisbon.
A place designed to be lived slowly.
28 keys · 12,3 hectares of oak forest · 55 minutes from Lisbon · Licensed
THE DEMAND EXISTS. THE SUPPLY DOES NOT.
Annual visitors to the Óbidos region
From Lisbon
Experiential five-star boutiques within an hour.
Regional five-star occupancy ran at 63,6% in 2025 (Turismo de Portugal, Travel BI). The demand is already here.
A LICENSED PROJECT, READY FOR ITS NEXT CHAPTER.
Cōrtia was conceived as an experiential five-star: a working farm, a destination restaurant and a programme of art, set in a forest that stays as it is. The land, the design and the budgeted construction come together in a single package.
- 12,3 ha freehold plot
- Licensed hotel project
- 28 keys across fourteen villas
Full technical file and financial details available for consultation
A TRADITIONAL OAK FOREST, FIFTY-FIVE MINUTES NORTH OF LISBON.
Cōrtia sits within a traditional 12,3-hectare forest in Óbidos, a UNESCO Creative City of Literature. These trees are protected and live beyond two hundred years. Less than 3% of the land will ever be built; the other 97% stays as it is.
Deep silence, slow days, and the rhythm of the forest.
A working farm, an open kitchen, and ingredients that travel only as far as the path.
A small, considered programme of works and residencies woven through the estate.
Twenty-eight keys across fourteen villas. Low density, deep silence, a discreet kind of luxury. Designed by Studio JV, with landscape by OhLand.
Targeting BREEAM certification, with regeneration built into the operation from the ground up.
WHAT HAPPENS HERE.
Cuisine is where Cōrtia begins.
The project is built around a destination restaurant seating one hundred and twenty, indoors and out, beneath the canopy. What reaches the table is grown a few steps away, and the menu turns with the seasons. A bar for light plates and seasonal cocktails, and a cellar devoted to Portuguese wine. The restaurant is conceived as a destination in its own right, drawing diners from the wider region rather than resident guests alone.
The masterplan includes a 2 000 m² organic garden, an orchard-forest, an apiary and a small farm of chickens, sheep and goats. Around 60% of what the kitchen serves can be grown or raised on the land, and guests are welcome to take part.
Óbidos is a UNESCO Creative City of Literature, home to opera, piano and the FOLIO literary festival. Cōrtia belongs to this landscape, adding a contemporary voice through rotating artist residencies and a partnership framework with ESAD, an award-winning art school nearby.
A treatment cabin in the woods, a sauna, a movement studio and heated magnesium pools open year-round. A programme built on three rhythms: the physical, the creative and the contemplative. Wellbeing means returning to a natural rhythm.
WHERE THE PROJECT STANDS.
LICENSED
Project licensed
EARLIEST CONSTRUCTION START
January 2027
EARLIEST OPENING
Q3 2028
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The project is presented by its developers. Technical file and financial details are available for consultation
Diogo Matos · +351 913 209 893 · d.matos@cortia.pt
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