Domaine à Potentiel Touristique à Côté Du Barrage De Campilhas

Estate with 211.3 hectares, located approximately 20 km from Porto Covo, in a setting of great tranquillity and outstanding landscape quality. The entire property borders the Campilhas Dam, providing a rare natural setting of significant environmental value.

Ruin: extension potential up to 500 sqm for residential use;
PIP: 6,000 sqm of gross construction area for a tourism project.

The estate comprises three rustic plots and one urban plot, being predominantly covered by cork oak and holm oak woodland, typical of the region and of high ecological interest.

Due to its unique characteristics, size, water resources and natural surroundings, this estate represents an excellent opportunity for the development of a distinctive tourism project, as well as a long-term investment in one of the most sought-after areas of the Alentejo Coast.

Originally a pre-Celtic settlement and later a Celtic urban cluster, it underwent Romanisation up to the post-imperial period, specifically from the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD. Although during the Celtic era there were already relations with other peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, particularly to the south, it was under Roman rule that the settlement’s daily life was revitalised, becoming the main Roman city on the western coast south of the River Tagus. Salatia Imperatoria or Mirobriga Celtici (scholars are divided on the name) featured a forum with its temple, imposing baths or thermae, and (1 km away) the only known Roman hippodrome in Portugal.

In the 19th century, during the period of majorats, Santiago do Cacém was akin to a small court, where the local lords lived in luxury and splendour. The opulent houses of the Counts of Bracial, La Cerda, Beja, the capitão-mor, the Counts of Avillez, Fonseca Achaiolli and others dominated the town and other parts of the Alentejo. The following facts not only reflect the wealth of these Lords, but also the rise of the town’s flourishing and picturesque life in the first half of the 20th century to national prominence: - In 1895, the first automobile to arrive in Portugal belonged to the Count of Avillez, from Santiago do Cacém; - The first Rolls Royce to enter Portugal also came to Santiago do Cacém, owned by José Sande Champalimaud; - Vehicle registration no. 1, issued by the Ministry of Public Works in 1904, was granted to Santiago do Cacém, in the name of Augusto Teixeira de Aragão.

During this period of economic development, alongside innovative agricultural and livestock farming techniques (mainly cereals, fruit and cork, as well as horse, mule, donkey, cattle, sheep, goat and pig breeding), industry and commerce also developed (cork, metalwork, milling, etc.). After 40 years of stagnation, the municipality experienced a new phase of urban expansion in the 1970sthe largest everbut this time planned and orderly.

From the top of the castle, at the Passeio das Romeirinhas, which surrounds the fortress, the landscape around Santiago do Cacém is breathtaking. Inside, the parish church, rebuilt after the 1755 earthquake, incorporates elements of the previous Gothic temple commissioned by the Order of Santiago da Espada.
Energy Rating: Exempt
#ref:PROP-33124