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Gavião Nature Village, Gavião, Alentejo

Photographs by Gavião Nature Village, used with permission.

Gavião Nature Village

Gavião, Portalegre, Alentejo

Ten shelters built from local cork oak, beside the river beach at Alamal on the Tejo.

Why we love it

Portugal produces half the world's cork, and almost nobody builds with it. Gavião does: ten shelters clad and lined in cork from the surrounding montado, alongside thirteen glamping tents fitted out as properly as hotel rooms.

It sits near the Alamal praia fluvial — a river beach on the Tejo, which is how the interior of Portugal swims in August when the coast is four hours away.

Best for: seeing what cork can do, and a river to jump into

Checked August 2026 · We re-verify prices and opening every quarter.

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