Description
This property is located 15 minutes from the beach, approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes from Lisbon, 10 minutes from Santiago, and 15 minutes from Grandola.
Perfect for tourism projects, this gently undulating plot is set in a cork oak forest area and offers distant sea views.
This is a setting of exceptional natural beauty, featuring cork oak woodland, pine trees, and Mediterranean vegetation. The region offers a serene and exclusive atmosphere, ideal for resorts, glamping, ecotourism, or luxury accommodation.
Features:
- Rustic land
- 22.5 hectares
- Agricultural support ruin
- Ideal for tourism projects
- With water source
. Good access
- Area with strong potential
Santiago do Cacem, a typically Alentejan town, is dominated by the Castle, featuring whitewashed houses and a historic area of great architectural beauty. It is home to the Roman ruins of Mirobriga, which are well worth a visit.
Blessed with a strategic geographical location, human populations have sought out this region for settlement since ancient times. Excavations carried out at the Castelo Velho, where the Roman ruins of Mirobriga are located, show that the region has been inhabited since Prehistoric times.
Originally a pre-Celtic settlement and later a Celtic urban cluster, it underwent Romanisation up to the post-imperial period, specifically from the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD. Although during the Celtic era there were already relations with other peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, particularly to the south, it was under Roman rule that the settlement's daily life was revitalised, becoming the main Roman city on the western coast south of the River Tagus. Salatia Imperatoria or Mirobriga Celtici (scholars are divided on the name) featured a forum with its temple, imposing baths or thermae, and (1 km away) the only known Roman hippodrome in Portugal.
In the 19th century, during the period of majorats, Santiago do Cacem was akin to a small court, where the local lords lived in luxury and splendour. The opulent houses of the Counts of Bracial, La Cerda, Beja, the capitao-mor, the Counts of Avillez, Fonseca Achaiolli and others dominated the town and other parts of the Alentejo. The following facts not only reflect the wealth of these Lords, but also the rise of the town's flourishing and picturesque life in the first half of the 20th century to national prominence: - In 1895, the first automobile to arrive in Portugal belonged to the Count of Avillez, from Santiago do Cacem; - The first Rolls Royce to enter Portugal also came to Santiago do Cacem, owned by Jose Sande Champalimaud; - Vehicle registration no. 1, issued by the Ministry of Public Works in 1904, was granted to Santiago do Cacem, in the name of Augusto Teixeira de Aragao.
During this period of economic development, alongside innovative agricultural and livestock farming techniques (mainly cereals, fruit and cork, as well as horse, mule, donkey, cattle, sheep, goat and pig breeding), industry and commerce also developed (cork, metalwork, milling, etc.). After 40 years of stagnation, the municipality experienced a new phase of urban expansion in the 1970sthe largest everbut this time planned and orderly.
From the top of the castle, at the Passeio das Romeirinhas, which surrounds the fortress, the landscape around Santiago do Cacem is breathtaking. Inside, the parish church, rebuilt after the 1755 earthquake, incorporates elements of the previous Gothic temple commissioned by the Order of Santiago da Espada.
