The house terrace with a white table, parasol and built-in sofa shaded by a cane canopy, beside a blue shutter and clay urns.

Holiday house with a private pool in Mourão, on Lake Alqueva

A holiday house with a private pool in Mourão, five minutes from the largest river beach on Lake Alqueva and twenty from Monsaraz.

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Private pool
2 bedrooms
Sleeps 4
Self check-in
Mourão

28° mostly clear

right now in Mourão · today's high 33°

overcast tonight

75% cloud · moon at 37%

.The house

A whitewashed house, its courtyard facing the sun

It's a plain Alentejo house — the kind with walls thick enough to stay cool through August. Inside: whitewash, exposed beams, jute rugs, terracotta. Nothing staged. Things that get used.

The living room opens onto the kitchen, and the kitchen opens onto the courtyard. In practice you spend the day going in and out, which is exactly how the house was meant to work.

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Open-plan living room and kitchen with a deep blue sofa, a table laid with blue-and-white striped linen, a paper lantern and a jute rug.

Rectangular plunge pool set into the whitewashed courtyard, with two white canvas and wood deckchairs, a clay urn and concrete steps in full sun.

.The courtyard

The pool is where the day happens

The courtyard gets sun from morning until late afternoon. The pool is set between whitewashed walls, with deckchairs, shade when you want it, and nobody watching.

It's where the day ends after the river beach, and where the evening starts before you head out to dinner.

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.Availability

Choose your dates

See which dates are free and book directly with us, with no middlemen.

Choosing your dates takes you to our booking page, where you confirm availability and the final price.

.Where it is

On Alqueva, on the quiet side of the lake

Mourão sits on the eastern shore of Lake Alqueva, on the quieter side. Monsaraz is visible across the water, twenty minutes away by car over the bridge.

It's a working village — grocer, café, butcher — not a postcard. If you want Alqueva without the crowds of the busier stretches, this is the right side of the lake.

Alqueva Mourão Monsaraz

Lake Alqueva at dusk, its arms of water reaching between cork oak pastures, with a dirt track running down towards the reservoir.

.From the house

Mourão river beach5 min
Lake Alqueva5 min
Monsaraz20 min
Dark Sky observatory, at Cumeada25 min
Reguengos de Monsaraz25 min
Évora60 min

.Discover

What there is to do here

River beaches, a walled medieval village on a hilltop, the world's first certified Dark Sky reserve, and restaurants where you still eat well for very little.