We have prepared a few shots, captured on location at "Quinta do Ceu na Terra" with a more detailed description of the villa and surrounding area below. If you need any more info, please don't hesitate to contact us
Each bedroom has its own individual design/style with its own en-suite bathroom. Guest bedrooms have twin beds which can be zipped together to create Queen size double beds.
Each of the showers and baths are set in windows and or glass sliding doors and can easily be filmed from both indoors and outdoors. Each one is completely different in style and theme.
All six bedrooms and or bathrooms step out onto terraces, with magnificent views of the property, countryside and or sea.
The master bedroom has a total area of 75 sq mts, which includes a large open gas fireplace, a split level sunken jacuzzi bath, a turkish steam room and double shower surrounded on all sides by glass, with breath-taking 180degree views of the countryside and sea.
All the bedrooms and bathrooms have glass sliding doors that disappear into the walls to give excellent views and shooting possibilities.
The roof top gives a 360 degree, panaramic view to the sea on the south side and to the north, inland to the mountains. The plot is surrounded by orange groves. The original styled chimney stacks and terracotta roof tiled domes gives the feeling of being on the roof tops of an old village
The grounds of the property offer a wide variety of possibilities for locations.There are several water features, with a small lake, several fountains, cascades, lilly ponds. An original Portuguese water wheel has been restored and installed along side the paved driveway which has an avenue of Capoc trees.
The front of the house has a nine iron golf hole with a full sized white sanded bunker. The property has 85.000sq mtrs of grounds of which 25.000sq mtrs have been professionally landscaped.
The lake has a fountain in the middle, two old floating Portuguese fishing boats, a wooden bridge gives access to a small island. The lake is flanked by a sundowners terrace and several olive trees that are considered to be centuries old. Water is recycled back into the lake via a large fountain through a series of water falls, cascades and ponds.
The house has been purposely built as a photographic/film location as well as a dream home to live in. The total build area is 1.200 m2 and the criteria was to ensure maximum space to provide ideal shooting/filming areas.
The house is ideally situated for both photography and filming as it is south facing with sun rises in the east and stting in the west, to the front of the house throughout the year. Optimum use has been made of natural light and space available. All doors to the exterior are glass which slide into cavities in the walls, which allows for interior and exterior shots to be taken in the same location.
The furniture throughout the house has been carefully chosen the give a wide variety of options for filming as well as classic home comforts. To add to the charm, there is a delightful mix of modern, classical and typical old traditional Portuguese furniture.
A grand fishpond is situated at the entrance with a "floating" foot path leading up to the Spanish oak front door, flanked by water cascades on either side. A huge hallway leads into the main lounge, opening out into a panoramic view of the coastline.
The lounge is split level with a large open circular gas fire and a huge copper chimney, situated in the centre of the room, on the split level.
Both levels of the lounge have solid glass doors that slide into the walls to give complete access to the exterior and visa versa. The dinning room has its own very large open gas fire place, set in marble, a coved ceiling and with a very old railway sleeper dinning table.
The dinning room also has huge glass sliding doors that slide away into the wall to give complete access to the front terrace. There is a terrace paved in old railway sleepers, that runs the full extent of the front of the house and fronts the lounges, dinning room and the kitchen.
The kitchen has a wonderful mix of "Oldie Worldie" with all the modern trappings. There is central cooking island with a very large copper canopy/extractor fan unit. The kitchen dinning table is made from a 200 year old church door.
The kitchen also has an extremely large open natural wood fireplace, in marble and copper. There are three large glass doors which slide into the wall cavity leaving one side of the kitchen completely open to the terrace.
In the basement there is a cinema, a games room with a full size pool table and a large bar area with 4 metre long bar counter. A home gym around a corner along with a typical Portuguese "adega-style" wine cellar with a wine tasting room adjoining it loaded with wine memorabilia.