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celebratedliving.com
FALL 2011
QUINTANOVA, PORTUGAL:
Eat, sleep, anddreamwine.
Quinta
Novabills itself as thefirstwinehotel in
Portugal.That’sabit likecalling theWash-
ingtonMonument thefirstof thecapital’s
greatmemorialsand leaving itat that.As
DaveMcIntyre, thewinecolumnist for the
WashingtonPost
, says, “Theview in thepic-
tures,with thepool overlooking thevine-
yards, isspectacular, andyouwonderhow
anythingcan liveup to that.But itdoes.”
QuintaNova, in thepremierDourowine re-
gion, includes thehotel,which isset ina re-
stored18th-centurymanorhouse, plusa
museumandcultural center thatare locat-
ed in the town’s renovated trainstationand
in thehomeswhere the trainworkersonce
lived.www.quintanova.com
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