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At few metres of the road E.N.102, already at the surroundings
of Vila Nova de Foz Côa, the urban area of the Chão d’Ordem
Farm is an integrant part of a landscape where the calmness
of the Beira matches the dignity of the Upper Douro, natural
qualities that the Knights Templars and afterwards the Knights
of the Order of Christ had already discovered and appreciated. |
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Forming an harmonious urban and rustic complex,
with its residential part and some outbuildings for agricultural
life, the Chão d’Ordem Farm, turning from the 20th to the
21st Century, is a living testimony of the good taste and
regard for the natural excellency of the place, the environment
and the quality of everything that is produced in it, as it
still happens today by the hand of its owners.
The
habitation part of the Farm has a simple and inviting draft.
The stair that leads to the first floor proceeds to the veranda,
as though involving the visitors in a single embrace. The
nobility of the welcoming reveals itself naturally at the
upper floor, but, at the good manner of the ancient, the greater
frankness takes place at the ground floor. When its doors
set to us wide open, the heart of the house opens entirely. |
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The Knights of the Temple and afterwards the Knights of the
Order of Christ, tired of the works at Presuria, searched
for warming and silent environments. Nowadays, with a type
of life not less worn away and more and more complicated,
it is a need to enjoy places like this one, where we can live
at the quiet rhythm of Nature. |
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A resting environment is a gift from the heaven. And so that
the quietness can be a state of soul, the scenery, simple
and welcoming, cannot help matching. |
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The Time asked the Time how much time the Time has. And the
Time answered the Time that the Time has so much time has
the Time has time.
But, honestly, at a place like this, who cares about Time? |
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Embellishing the dining room the furniture gives the tone,
a bunch of flowers mixtures with the stones of the olive-oil
press – significant presence of the agricultural life of this
house that opens itself to visitors with the same joy that
it welcomes the sunlight. |
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The wine cellar of the Chão d’Ordem Farm was the nest of winged
loves. In the inside of the dovecot, which is externally kept
the same as it was, are the treasures that the grapevine filtrated
from the inside of the earth, true diamonds that the farmer
knew how to polish. At the alveoli where the pigeons lived
there are bottles that hide harvests and secrets.
It is this, truly, “the jewel of the Knights Templars”.
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