The Manor House,, designated in Portuguese as the “Paço de S. Cipriano" is, above all, a Family House.

To these several buildings, involved in a traditional and picturesque atmosphere, has been for centuries linked a Family that owns strong values and beliefs, and, generation after generation , creates a chain that makes Tradition survive through the times.

A Manor House is much more than the Crest that it shows, but what is really important is the people who are dwelling there and give it a rare human touch.
Each stone, decoration, tree, vineyard, garden, gravestone, spring, cellar or eventually a less elegant detail, are the marks that the generations leave in the House, giving it its human trace. And also the dreams that haven´t yet come true and the projects that will come to life in the future are a part of the patrimony that belongs to the House and to the Family that dwells in it . Because a House like this is not only its past; it has got a present and ought to have a future.

We can say that the Family and its values are the “soul" of the House.
And all this explains the mystery and the spell that involves the Paço de S. Cipriano.