Minutes from the city centre; this "casa rural" is set inside a beautiful, lush and well kept estate with an aviary of game birds, ducks and even swans. The traditional garden is adorned with a sizeable infinity swimming pool with beautiful views to the Atlantic, the town,beaches and sand dunes. The vistas are somewhat spoilt in places by glimpses of heavy industry at Viana´s busy port area. However, don´t let this put you off by any means. We stayed (4 adults, 2 children, 1 infant) at the Villa (which can house upto 8 adults-(officially), or 6 comfortably in my opinion. The house is well equipped and in good shape, though my cleanliness rating was lowered simply because the house was really in need of a good dusting-other than that, the facilities including the kitchen and two bathrooms though dated were nevertheless acceptable. The Villa is cosy and enchanting (in typical Portuguese style-lots of wood)! There is a fireplace, a sitting room, a separate dining room, a bbq... more