Quinta das Lágrimas hosts corporate meetings, seminars, team-building days, cocktail receptions and weddings in Coimbra, with meeting rooms for 15 to 350 people and gardens for receptions. The hotel occupies an 18th-century palace set in a park of historic gardens, halfway between Lisbon and Porto, and is a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World.
Seminars and company events
Corporate meetings are a core part of the offer. The meeting rooms take groups from 15 to 350 people, and several rooms can run at the same time, so a plenary can break into smaller workshops without leaving the building. A technical sheet of the meeting rooms is available from the hotel. Team-building activities are organized in the gardens and the woods of the estate, and the golf academy and the spa give options for free time during a two-day seminar. The hotel also sells group menus for company dinners, including a Christmas offer adapted to different formats and group sizes.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are sold, with cocktails and celebrations in the gardens. The hotel puts forward its cooking and the seclusion of the park as reasons to marry here. Receptions can move between the gardens and the indoor rooms, which helps when the weather turns. Capacities for wedding dinners are not published separately and should be confirmed with the events team.
Rooms and capacities
The official site gives a range rather than room names: meeting spaces from 15 to 350 people, usable at the same time for breakouts. Outdoors, the gardens host cocktails and organized activities.
Accommodation
Rooms and suites are spread across three parts of the estate. The palace holds the Palace rooms, the King's Suite and some Deluxe rooms and Grand Suites. A garden wing has Garden rooms, Suites and the Pedro & Inês Suite, set in a medieval tower. A spa wing holds Spa rooms and a Grand Suite. The Bamboo Garden Spa has a heated indoor pool, an outdoor pool open from May to October and a fitness center.
Catering
Catering is in house. The estate has two restaurants, Arcadas and Pedro Inês, plus the Arcadas Gastrobar for lighter meals, under chef Vítor Dias, with a creative cuisine built on regional produce. The hotel also runs Loggia, a restaurant at the Machado de Castro Museum in the upper town.
History and setting
The name of the estate, the Quinta of Tears, comes from the 14th-century story of Prince Pedro and Inês de Castro: legend places her death at the Quinta and says a spring born of her tears still runs here. The palace was for centuries a private residence that received kings and emperors. Its library is paneled in exotic wood and holds thousands of old books on Portuguese history. The park gathers romantic, Japanese, medieval and scent gardens, an organic kitchen garden, bamboo woods, centuries-old trees and more than 20 bird species. A golf academy run by PGA professionals has a 9-hole pitch and putt course, a 35-bay driving range and putting and chipping greens.
Getting there
Coimbra sits on the Lisbon to Porto rail line, and Coimbra-B station is served by the fast Alfa Pendular trains. Porto airport is about 1 h 15 by road and Lisbon airport about 2 h.
