The project to convert the monument into a 5-star hotel unit for the Visabeira Group was signed by the prestigious and award-winning architect Eduardo Souto Moura.
Source: Grupo Visabeira
Author: Newsroom
The National Palace of Ajuda hosted the ceremony of the National Award of Urban Rehabilitation, considered the most relevant initiative to reward excellence in the Portuguese real estate sector.
The award to the reconversion of the Rachadouro Cloister of Alcobaça Monastery was assigned by a jury composed by academic and professional personalities, according to a communiqué sent to
SUPERCASA News.
The reconversion of Rachadouro Cloister at Alcobaça Monastery, classified as National Monument since 1910 and part of Unesco's World Heritage List since December 1989, into the seventh hotel unit of Grupo Visabeira in Portugal was a complex project in which the company invested 24,5 million euros.
The project was signed by the prestigious architect Eduardo Souto Moura, whose work is recognised and valued on a global scale, as attested by the award of the Pritzker Prize in 2011, the most relevant international prize in the world of architecture.Architect Eduardo Souto Moura's concept for resurrecting the age-old building was inspired by the minimalism and detachment of convent life, cleaning it from the numerous more recent interventions and recovering the spirit that has marked the property over the centuries.
This vision of architecture managed to highlight the virtuosity and quality of noble materials such as stone, wood, leather, steel and glass, in perfect union with the secular roots of the building and the irreproachable respect for the pre-existences and the history of the Monastery, thus accentuating the material reversibility that is a reference of this intervention.
Apart from the project, the architect Eduardo Souto Moura was also responsible for the design of the furniture, especially developed for the hotel and for the decoration of the space, which included some pieces by his colleague and friend Álvaro Siza Vieira.Inaugurated in November 2022 by the Presidents of Portugal and Mozambique, and with the presence of the Minister of the Economy and Sea, representing the Prime Minister, the Montebelo Mosteiro de Alcobaça Historic Hotel, a 5-star unit, has 91 accommodation units, distributed between single and double rooms; family rooms; suites and a master suite, which is already a huge reference not only for leisure tourism, but also for corporate events.
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