It's not just where you are. It's how close everything is once you're here.
Latitude sits in the centre of Cantanhede, and from this one address the whole region opens up. You're half an hour from Coimbra and Aveiro, an hour from Porto, two from Lisbon. Vineyards, forest and ocean are all minutes apart. Unpack once, and let the Bairrada come to you.
One of Portugal's best-kept secrets.
Some wine regions everyone knows. The Bairrada is not quite one of them, and perhaps that is its charm. It lies between Coimbra and Aveiro, with the Atlantic close by and clay-limestone soils that give its wines a character you won't mistake for anywhere else.
Small in size, large in reputation, and growing year after year.
If one wine defines the Bairrada, it's sparkling.
The region makes around 60% of all of Portugal's traditional-method sparkling wine, and was one of the first in the country to master it. Traditional method is the same craft as Champagne: once bottled, the wine ferments a second time inside the bottle, for months.
That patience is where the fine, persistent bead comes from, and that aroma of freshly baked bread. You taste it in every glass.
Three ways the Bairrada fills a glass.
And the perfect partner to it all: leitão à Bairrada, suckling pig roasted in a wood oven until the skin crackles, one of Portugal's most loved dishes.
A region that doesn't live on wine alone.
Curia & Luso spas
Thermal towns made for slowing the pace, with mineral waters famous across Portugal.
Coimbra & Aveiro
The country's oldest university city, and the "Venice of Portugal" with its canals and moliceiro boats. Both half an hour away.
Expofacic, right around the corner
Cantanhede's biggest annual event, and one of the largest in the country each summer, is about ten minutes on foot from the house.