Castelo Ventoso is a family-run country house in the heart of the Alentejo, next to Evora, rented exclusively for intimate celebrations. Here time slows: open countryside, cork woods, olive groves, and the warm hospitality of a house that is yours in full for the duration of your stay.
The property crosses the Jesuit heritage of its architecture with contemporary comfort — an original Baroque chapel, soaring vaulted ceilings, and hand-painted 18th-century tiles, alongside eight bedrooms, a fully equipped kitchen, an infinity pool, and a private padel court. Sixteen guests live the house from morning to night, in complete privacy.
For couples who want an intimate, historic wedding in exclusive use in the Alentejo, this is the spot. If you ask us, it’s the right country house for those who want time and privacy, not scale.
The house has eight bedrooms for up to sixteen guests, rented as one single property in exclusive use, so the closest group stays at the estate itself. Mary Me coordinates the allocation between the wedding party, family, and VIPs, with the multi-day programme and transfers from Lisbon airport handled.
Castelo Ventoso holds the Jesuit heritage in its architecture, preserved through a careful restoration: the original Baroque chapel, the soaring vaulted ceilings, and the hand-painted 18th-century tiles tell the house’s past. Every corner has a story, now in the service of comfort and hospitality.
Today, it’s a family-run country house, in the heart of the Alentejo, dedicated to stays and celebrations in exclusive use. The restoration joined the historic with contemporary design without erasing the memory of the place — the result is welcoming and unique, a true home away from home.
If you ask us, there are houses you rent by the hour and houses you inhabit in full. Castelo Ventoso is clearly the second kind.
We’re in the heart of the Alentejo, next to Evora — among cork woods, olive groves, and open countryside, about an hour and a half from Lisbon airport. It’s nature, quiet, and Alentejo hospitality, far from anything that resembles a rush, with the World Heritage city of Evora nearby.
The advantage for a destination wedding is immersion and privacy: the house is yours in full, with a stay for sixteen, in the middle of nature — yet at a comfortable distance from Lisbon and Evora for the guests.
Anything the guests might want to do — Evora, the plain, wine tasting, the picturesque villages around — is at hand. Arriving is easy. Leaving — we can’t quite guarantee that part.
Castelo Ventoso is an intimate country wedding in exclusive use. The civil, symbolic, or religious ceremony takes place in the Baroque chapel or outdoors, among olive groves and cork woods; the cocktail spreads beside the infinity pool; dinner settles in the historic spaces, beneath the vaulted ceilings, and the party runs on with guests living the house from morning to night.
As it’s rented as one single property, with eight bedrooms for sixteen guests, it’s the right scale for a secluded, deeply personal wedding — designed for small groups who want quality and time, not numbers. There’s no in-house catering: it’s built from vendors of your choice, and a local chef can be arranged for a bespoke Alentejo menu.
It’s a venue that favours intimacy, history, and privacy over scale — ideal for couples who want a whole house to themselves in the Alentejo. And this is exactly where our experience comes in. The couple’s session winds through the Baroque chapel, the vaulted halls, the hand-painted tiles, the infinity pool, and the cork woods and olive groves at golden hour. Pop the question. We handle the rest.
A historic house in exclusive use, with no in-house catering, is precisely where a planner’s coordination is indispensable: designing a multi-day wedding, choosing the right vendors, and building everything from scratch in a house for sixteen takes experience. We handle the design of the day and the complete build-out — chef and catering, furniture, structure — in coordination with the house team, the management of the stay for the group, and the transfers from Lisbon airport, an hour and a half away. And there’s the practical side: the civil-ceremony paperwork in Portuguese, the sound permits, and a programme of Evora, the plain, and wine tasting for the guests. From the first call to the last dance.
Yes — Castelo Ventoso is rented as one single property, in exclusive use during the stay, with eight bedrooms for up to sixteen guests. The whole house is yours. Mary Me coordinates the terms and the multi-day programme.
There is — an original Baroque chapel, part of the house’s historic character, ideal for an intimate religious or symbolic ceremony, with the rest of the property for the cocktail, dinner, and party.
It’s an intimate house — eight bedrooms, sixteen guests staying — with a vocation for small celebrations. The exact capacity for your format is confirmed with the house.
There’s no in-house catering. It’s built from vendors of your choice, and a local chef can be arranged for a bespoke Alentejo menu. Mary Me coordinates all of this.
There is — an infinity pool, a private padel court, and a fully equipped kitchen, in the middle of cork woods and olive groves. It’s a house designed to be lived comfortably over several days.
In the heart of the Alentejo, next to Evora, about an hour and a half from Lisbon airport. Transfers handled by Mary Me.
From late spring to early autumn, to enjoy the pool, the olive groves, and the countryside outdoors; the historic spaces allow celebrations in the cooler seasons. The Alentejo summer is hot — we recommend a shaded plan and booking in advance.
