Casa no Tempo, by Silent Living, was built as a family house and passed through several generations before it opened its doors to guests. It sits on the Herdade do Carvalho, in Montemor-o-Novo, and keeps its original purpose intact: to spend time, slowly, in the middle of the Alentejo.
Architect Manuel Aires Mateus reworked it into a white, minimalist retreat — four suites, a 400 m² pool, and 400 hectares of plain, lakes and cork oaks around it. It is a home before it is an events space, and it is booked whole, one stay at a time.
The spirit is one of sharing, of the land and of simplicity, without formality. Those who marry here marry in that register: relaxed, outdoors, more a gathering of family and friends than a production.
The house belonged to the grandparents of Silent Living’s founder, João Rodrigues, and was inherited with a mission: to connect the stories of the past with what is possible for the future, without erasing the marks of time — hence the name.
The renovation was led by Manuel Aires Mateus, a friend of the family, who designed the house to blur the boundary between interior and plain: huge windows and archways that let in the light and the landscape.
If you ask us, it is the opposite of an events venue: a real house, with a soul, lent to those seeking peace.
We are in Montemor-o-Novo, about an hour east of Lisbon, on the Herdade no Tempo — 400 hectares of wildflower fields, lakes and cork-oak groves.
Évora, a World Heritage city, and Arraiolos are a short drive away. It is deep Alentejo, but with the city right there for those who want to explore.
The Alentejo light, pouring through the windows at all hours, is the house’s true luxury. Little more is needed.
Casa no Tempo hosts weddings of anywhere from a handful to a hundred guests, always on a minimum three-night stay — time for the team to prepare the day, and for the couple and close family to live the house before the celebration.
From twenty guests up, the celebration moves outdoors; the interior is kept for those sleeping in the house. The kitchen, the courtyard and the pool become the setting, and everything — from the catering to the materials — is set up and served by the Silent Living team, in the simple, unfussy register that defines the place.
It is a wedding that asks for a couple aligned with this philosophy: less protocol, more place. For those who want it, there are few places like it in the Alentejo. Pop the question. We handle the rest.
Casa no Tempo works as a buyout: the whole house is booked, three nights minimum, sleeping eight adults. Our first job is the arithmetic of accommodation — who stays in the house, and where we place the rest of the group, in quintas and hotels a short drive away in Montemor — so no one in a party of a hundred is left out of the experience.
The house works with the Silent Living team and its own partners for everything extra — flowers, photography, music. We bridge that closed model, slotting in the right suppliers without friction and respecting the aesthetic language of the house rather than forcing it.
Above twenty guests the celebration is outdoors, and that is where the plain does the work: a long table under the cork oaks, a dinner beside the pool, the Alentejo night without noise. The civil ceremony and the permits are ours to resolve; yours is the slow time the house is named for.
It hosts from six to a hundred guests. Up to twenty, the celebration may be held indoors; above that, it moves outdoors. A wedding always requires a minimum three-night stay.
In Montemor-o-Novo, in the Alentejo, about an hour east of Lisbon and a short drive from Évora.
The renovation is by architect Manuel Aires Mateus, from a former Silent Living family home.
The house has four suites, up to eight adults; a wedding requires at least three nights. We handle the allocation and extra rooms in Montemor for the rest of the group.
Catering is provided exclusively by the Silent Living team, with their own menus; the extras — flowers, photography, music — come from their partner list, which we coordinate with you.
Civil and symbolic ceremonies on the property; religious moments are coordinated in Évora, if desired.
