Campo de Arroz

Walking out from the main house across the garden, guests reach an infinity pool that looks toward the rice paddies of Lagoa Formosa rather than the sea. Campo de Arroz sits inland from Comporta, in the flat green country where irrigation canals cut through the paddies and storks pick along the banks. The property pairs a main house with a separate cabin, both set in a planted garden that buffers the flat, open fields beyond. It is a compact stay. The main house holds the pool and its own bathrooms; the cabin has a bathroom and a terrace of its own, useful for guests who want a little distance from the main rooms. Pego and Carvalhal beaches lie a short drive away, each with its own stretch of dune and sand and a single beach restaurant rather than a row of them. Rice has shaped this stretch of the Alentejo coast for generations, and the fields around the house still flood each spring, turning the paddies into flat sheets of water that mirror the sky before the shoots take hold. From the terrace you can watch that cycle change with the seasons, green giving way to gold at harvest. It is a quiet base for exploring the wider Herdade da Comporta on foot, by bike or by boat, with the working landscape of the rice fields as its constant backdrop.