Services
House
Two living rooms equipped with TV
Library (conditional access)
Games room with billiards, darts (conditioned access)
Covered balcony facing west
Stone balcony to enjoy the stars
Breakfast with regional products
Protection and safety measures (hand sanitizer available for customers and employees)
Outside
Free parking
Outdoor infinity pool facing the sunset
Terrace, sun loungers and parasols
Walking ways
General
Free Wifi
Lounge area/Beverage dispenser (coming soon)
Electric bicycles (coming soon)
Gym supplies (trampoline, weights, mats) (coming soon)
Sales of regional products
ROOM FEATURES
Air conditioning
Heated floor in bathrooms
Flat screen TV
Cleaning service
Hair dryer
Beds with a high level of comfort
All rooms are non-smokings
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Discover the region
Accept our invitation, head to MEDELIM, Idanha-a-Nova and discover the region. Based on nature tourism, you can discover some of the most beautiful Historical Villages in Portugal. In this corner of Beira Baixa where Nature, Geology, History and Multi-millenary Culture merge harmoniously in a unique and restful landscape.
We are happy to suggest some itineraries and tours that will help you to explore and feel the grandeur of this Mystical boarder Region. In this historical trip, we propose to visit some Monuments that were donated by the Monarchy to the Knights Templar. In these buildings is printed the mission of the Knights Templar to rebuild, fortify and protect the paths and borders of the Christian Kingdoms.
For any of the tours you decide to do, we have a tasting basket available, which you can request (prior order).
Contains a selection of products from the region. In this way, you can enjoy a nice picnic. In nature, where the senses are refined and the aromas are released from the landscape…
Cultural itineraries
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About
Notes that help you get to know Casa do Cedro in Medelim better
The house was bought, with a large couple of lands, in the first years of the 20th century to the Pinto Castelo Branco family, relatives of my great-great-grandparents, to integrate the marriage dowry of their daughter Maria Júlia Capelo Franco Frazão (sister of the Count of Penha Garcia, influential politician at the end of the monarchy), from Capinha, with my great-grandfather Augusto Pedro de Figueiredo da Costa Falcão, graduated in Law, from Pedrógão de S. Pedro e Alcaide.
The original house was divided in half and the part that remained was the object of total remodeling works. In shares for the death of that couple, my grandmother Maria Delfina Franco Frazão de Figueiredo Falcão, married to grandfather João António de Castro Pereira Lopes Cardoso, who continued the works.We look forward to your stay.
It was, therefore, at first, an agricultural support house for the Medelim couple and then, on vacation, for two, now three, generations.
The remodeling of the house was the initial design of the great-grandfather Joaquim Capelo Franco Frazão, brother of the great-grandmother Júlia, single and great agricultural administrator of Casa Franco Frazão, and who, according to family tradition, was the one who wanted, and thus obtained, to form the sister Maria Júlia's dowry, having later been surely greatly influenced by our grandparents.
In the 1990s, a new division took place and the house came to be owned by my parents, Maria Manuela Queirós de Ataíde Páris de Vasconcelos Lopes Cardoso and Augusto Pedro Falcão Lopes Cardoso, who made further adaptations and modernizations to further improve the comfort of the place. Truly a family home, where her 3 children and 11 grandchildren took their “first steps” and always ready to receive relatives and friends from the “4 corners of the world”.
The House has reached the current generation, which has embarked on a new profound transformation of the interior and exterior, seeking to provide it with modern comforts and thus keep it alive for future generations.
With great pleasure, it now also welcomes guests looking for a pleasant and comfortable place, for a well-deserved rest or as a starting point to visit the region. Welcome!
Isabel and João Lopes Cardoso
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