Hotel Locke Santa Joana is one of Lisbon’s most talked-about design debuts: a former 18th-century convent, in the Estefania area, converted by Locke into a contemporary hotel full of character. It opened in 2024 and brings together the serenity of a cloister and the creative energy of a design hotel.
The restoration preserved the soul of the former convent — courtyards, cloisters, high ceilings — and crossed it with modern interiors, gardens, and social spaces designed for slow living. To marry here is to marry in a space with history and aesthetics, in the heart of the city, with design lodging for the group.
For couples who want a city wedding with design and the serenity of a former convent, this is the spot. If you ask us, it’s the most interesting design debut in Lisbon.
It’s a design apart-hotel, so the group stays in the hotel itself. Mary Me coordinates the allocation of the units between the wedding party, family, and VIPs, with transfers handled from the airport.
Hotel Locke Santa Joana occupies the former Convento de Santa Joana, founded in the 18th century in the Estefania area of Lisbon. Like so many Portuguese conventual buildings, it passed through centuries of changing uses until it was recently restored by the Locke brand, known for its design apart-hotels across Europe.
The intervention, opened in 2024, preserved the courtyards, the cloisters, and the scale of the old building, crossing them with a contemporary language — signature interiors, gardens, and lively social spaces. It’s history and design side by side, with neither cancelling the other.
If you ask us, there are hotels that erase what was there before and hotels that turn it into soul. Locke Santa Joana is clearly the second kind.
We’re in Estefania, in the middle of Lisbon, near Saldanha and Avenida da Liberdade — a central, well-served area of the city, about twelve minutes from the airport. It’s urban, cosmopolitan Lisbon, with everything a few minutes away.
The advantage for a destination wedding is centrality with design: guests stay in the hotel itself, in the heart of the city, with restaurants, monuments, and Lisbon life at the door.
Anything the guests might want to do — explore Lisbon, Belem, a day in Sintra or Cascais — is at hand. Arriving is easy. Leaving — we can’t quite guarantee that part.
Hotel Locke Santa Joana is a city wedding with design and history. The civil or symbolic ceremony takes place in the courtyards and cloisters of the former convent or in the gardens; the cocktail spreads across the social spaces; dinner settles in the design spaces, with the hotel’s kitchen handling the table, and the party runs into the night.
As an apart-hotel, it offers design lodging for the group, restaurants, and the complete infrastructure of a contemporary venue — with the rare advantage of the serenity of a former convent in the centre of the city. It’s the choice for couples of modern taste who want history and comfort at the same address.
It’s a venue that favours design, history, and contemporary hospitality over tradition — ideal for city couples. And this is exactly where our experience comes in. The couple’s session winds through the preserved cloisters, the convent courtyards, and the signature contemporary interiors. Pop the question. We handle the rest.
A newborn design hotel is exactly the kind of space where our coordination makes the difference, especially in designing a bespoke wedding at a venue still fine-tuning its events operation. We handle the design of the day in coordination with the hotel team, the management of the units for the group, and the transfers from the airport, twelve minutes away. And there’s the practical side: the civil-ceremony paperwork in Portuguese, the sound permits, and a programme of Lisbon, Belem, Sintra, and Cascais for the guests. From the first call to the last dance.
It is — it opened in 2024, in a former 18th-century convent restored by the design brand Locke. Mary Me coordinates closely with the hotel team to ensure everything runs perfectly at a still-recent venue.
Yes — it’s a design apart-hotel, so the group stays in the hotel itself. Mary Me coordinates the allocation of the units.
It’s a setting for medium-scale weddings, spread across the courtyards, cloisters, and social spaces. The exact capacity for your format is confirmed with the hotel.
It does — the restoration preserved the courtyards and cloisters of the former convent, which give a serene, photogenic setting for the ceremony and cocktail, in the heart of the city.
In Estefania, in the middle of Lisbon, near Saldanha and Avenida da Liberdade, about twelve minutes from the airport. Transfers handled by Mary Me.
As it combines interiors and courtyards, it works all year round; spring and autumn are ideal for the outdoor moments. We recommend booking in advance.
It’s a former 18th-century convent turned design hotel by Locke, with courtyards, cloisters, and signature interiors in the centre of Lisbon — history and design at the same address, like few venues in the city.
