Alto Alentejo, Borba, Portugal

A 5.54-hectare site in Borba, Évora District, Alentejo, near Estremoz, holding full municipal approval for an Isolated Tourist Development of up to 200 beds and 11,000m² of built area, with permission granted for an apart-hotel style development. The site sits across 5 adjoining registered parcels with a 2-storey height allowance. Planning risk is removed. What remains is execution.

Key Differentiators

- Full municipal approval in hand, not a preliminary opinion. The development ceiling (200 beds, 11,000m², 2-storey) is confirmed, and the site is composed of 5 adjoining registered parcels.
- Format flexibility within the approval. The permission supports an apart-hotel concept as granted, with scope for glamping or nature-cabin development within the same envelope. Low-density models built around the landscape rather than against it (the kind pioneered by Gavião's glamping concept elsewhere in Portugal) are well-proven in this region's nature tourism market.
- Location within the Alentejo wine region, 40 minutes from Évora, Portugal's European Capital of Culture 2027 and a UNESCO World Heritage city, and under 20 minutes from Vila Viçosa, ancestral seat of the House of Braganza.
- Borba itself carries commercial weight beyond wine. It's one of Portugal's principal marble-quarrying towns, supplying stone used in palaces and monuments worldwide, and it produces Borba DOC, one of the Alentejo's more recognised wine appellations. Both give a development here an established regional identity to market against, rather than needing to build one from scratch.
- Site conditions support the concept without added engineering: cork oak landscape, dark sky conditions, unobstructed horizons. Sections within the National Ecological Reserve protect sightlines permanently.
- Mapped access. Multiple private access roads are already planned for the site.
Europe's largest elephant sanctuary sits nearby, a point of regional interest worth knowing rather than a feature to build a positioning around.
- Adjacent opportunity. A neighbouring 5.5-hectare plot with its own independent planning status is available through the same agency, listed separately, for buyers wanting to explore a larger combined holding.

Key Specifications

- Plot size: 5.54 hectares (13.7 acres)
- Price: €700,000
- Planning status: Full municipal approval, Isolated Tourist Development, apart-hotel permitted use
- Maximum capacity: 200 beds
- Maximum built area: 11,000m²
- Height allowance: 2-storey structures (6.5m)
- Site composition: 5 adjoining registered parcels
- Location: Borba, Évora District, Alentejo, near Estremoz
- Évora: approx. 40 min
- Vila Viçosa: approx. 20 min
- Adjacent plot: 5.5ha, separate title, listed separately, available on request

Planning risk removed, location established, permitted use confirmed. This is a site for a developer or investor ready to build rather than wait on approvals. Contact us for the technical file, planning documentation, or to arrange a site visit.