Description
Estate in Alcacer do Sal - 69.625 hectares with outstanding agri-forestry and tourism potential
Estate of 69.625 hectares with excellent agri-forestry and tourism potential, located in Alcacer do Sal, just ten minutes from the city centre and close to the prestigious tourist region of Comporta, renowned for its beaches and breathtaking landscapes.
Surrounded by a serene landscape of cork oaks and pine trees, this estate in Alcacer do Sal offers an atmosphere of absolute privacy and exclusivity. It is fully fenced and features two reservoirs, one water well, livestock parks, cork oak forest, and arable crops.
Currently, the estate is dedicated to forestry investment and cattle breeding but holds exceptional potential for the development of a tourism project over an area of 13,800 sqm, or for the construction of a farmhouse up to 500 sqm, spread over two floors plus a basement.
Features:
- Cork Oak Forest: 45 hectares
- Arable Crops: 20 hectares
- Reservoirs: 1.5 hectares
- 3 hectares of clear land at the heart of the estate, ideal for construction
- Land Characteristics:
- Cork oak forest and arable crops
- Natural pastures: Perfect for livestock breeding and other agricultural activities
- Livestock parks
- Water borehole, two dams, and an underground water line
- Excellent access roads
Exceptional tourism investment opportunity with high construction potential, 0.20% (1.38 hectares), allowing up to 200 beds, either in a hotel complex or in detached buildings
Possibility to build a farmhouse up to 500 sqm with respective agricultural facilities (construction index of 0.02% or 0.05%, depending on the type of agricultural operation)
Alcacer do Sal is in the district of Setubal, Alentejo region and sub-region of Alentejo Litoral, and has about 6,700 inhabitants.
The area offers heritage (Alcacer do Sal Castle, Senhor dos Martires Archaeological Centre, Pedro Nunes Rice Museum and the Municipal Archaeology Museum).
There is a good transport network providing easy access to the motorway (A2), national roads (IC1, N5, N120, N253 and N282), ports (Port of Setubal), railways (Sado and Alentejo lines) and Lisbon airport.
It is the seat of the second-largest Portuguese municipality, covering an area of 1,499.87 sq km but with only 13,046 inhabitants (2011), subdivided into 4 parishes. The municipality is bordered to the north by the municipalities of Palmela, Vendas Novas and Montemor-o-Novo, to the east by Viana do Alentejo and Alvito, to the southeast by Ferreira do Alentejo, to the south and west by Grandola and to the northwest across the Sado estuary, by Setubal.
Alcacer do Sal is one of Europe's oldest cities, founded by the Phoenicians before 1,000 BC. Along with its neighbours and also Phoenician Lisbon and Setubal, it supplied salt, salted fish, horses for export and food for the boats that traded tin from Cornwall.
Later, with the Visigoth invasion, it again took on importance as an episcopal see. After being captured by the Arabs, it took the name of Qasr Abu Danis, where one of the strongest fortresses of the Iberian Peninsula was built. The Vikings tried to take it but failed.
During Arab times it was the capital of Al-Kassr province. King Afonso Henriques conquered it in 1158. Later retaken by the Moors, it was only during the reign of King Alfonso II, and with the help of a fleet of Crusaders that the town was conquered once and for all and it became the headquarters of the Order of Santiago.
The town was elevated to city status on 12 July 1997. It produces more pine nuts than any other municipality.
Energy Rating: Exempt
