Quinta dos Figos - "5 trevos GOLD"

A wooded spot with 5000 m2, with three buildings of typical rural architecture, dominated by the enormous chimneys in stonework stone in the form of “hands put” and the borders and contours of doors and windows also in stone. Regional roofs of the reddish color with tiles made of clay. Balconies and staircases in stonework stone;

A car park with a red bagacina floor; Two gardens and endemic plants, with floors in buckets of basaltic stone; Seven lawns;

A torreão (viewpoint) all covered in rustic stone, with staircase access in red volcanic tuff, where you can enjoy a beautiful view over the city of Praia da Vitoria with its vast beach and the mountains of the Summit;

Homes for pets with walls rustic stone and roofs in regional tile;

A barbecue covered with red stone and covered with regional title; A Eira (rounded with 10 m in diameter) with bench and stone walls and with saber floor (cream colored earth);

Fruit trees (figs, orange trees, lemon pears, lemon trees, banana trees, etc.), and vegetables (potatoes, cabbages, cabbages, cabbages, onions, beans, garlic, turnips, lettuces, etc.), intended for self-consumption, including the clients of the apartments;

Walls of self-delimitation and division, all in rustic stone and accesses with stone floors, bagacina, and beaten earth;

Spaces with varied types of trees of shade (Araucaria, Metrosideros, beeches, bananas, laurel, chorão, etc.); plants and ornamental flowers (hydrangeas, cardinals, azaleas, jars, carnations of hope, stalactites, orchids, dahlias, etc.), creating an inviting environment for leisure and reading.

Belonging to a wealthy rural family, the “Quinta” has been a multi-purpose venue for more than a century.

In addition to housing, it served as an economic center for self-support. The cultivation of corn, its transformation into flour and into bread, in their wood stoves; milk production; their skimming and processing into cheese and butter; the production of grapes and their transformation into wine; the capture of rainwater and its storage in cisterns; the production of fruits, in particular of figs and their use, both fresh and sometimes dried in home-made jams; the production of poultry and eggs; the production of pigs, their slaughtering and storage of meat in earthenware containers (salgadeiras) and the production of an immense variety of horticultural and floricultural products, were the result of a hard work where the time between sunrise and sunset – Sun.

In addition to the practice of a self-subsistence economy, Quinta’s three buildings served as a commercial establishment (where some of the Lisbon newspapers were posted for information on the local population, especially at the time of the 1914 war); as a primary school; milk skimming station and even as a military barracks.

Today, it’s adapted to the practice of rural tourism-country house, and it keeps alive the signs of its history.

The Azores enjoy a temperate climate throughout the year without great variations in temperature. Temperatures range from a minimum annual average of 14ºC and a pleasant 24.8ºC (average in August).

Excellent temperature of the seawater. The average temperature of seawater, influenced by the Gulf Stream, is between 16ºC and 22ºC throughout the year.

• Spring – Min: 14ºC – Max: 16ºC
• Summer – Min: 19ºC – Max: 22ºC
• Autumn – Min: 15ºC – Max: 18ºC
• Winter – Min: 14ºC – Max: 15ºC

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