Wedding venues in Portugal

Four Seasons Hotel Ritz Lisbon

Lisbon's 1959 Ritz, built by the Portuguese state as a showcase of national art, with a 400-metre running track on the roof above Parque Eduardo VII.

282 rooms

Vidago Palace

King Carlos I commissioned Vidago Palace; it opened on 6 October 1910, a day after Portugal became a republic, and was reborn in 2010 with an Álvaro Siza spa.

70 rooms

Palácio Estoril Hotel

Opened in 1930 beside Casino Estoril, the Palácio sheltered exiled kings and wartime spies, then played Bond's hotel in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

161 rooms

Six Senses Douro Valley

A 19th-century quinta above the Douro, restored by the designer Clodagh and reopened in 2015 as the first Six Senses in Europe.

The Yeatman

A wine hotel built by the Taylor's port family on the Gaia hillside in 2010, every one of its 109 rooms facing Porto across the Douro.

109 rooms

Pestana Palace Lisboa

Built 1904-1913 on a São Tomé cocoa fortune and classified a national monument, the Valle Flor palace has been Pestana's 190-room Lisbon flagship since 2001.

190 rooms

Vila Vita Parc

On 22 hectares of cliff top near Porches, Vila Vita Parc holds two Michelin stars at Ocean under Hans Neuner and has had one owning family since 1992.

170 rooms

Tivoli Palácio de Seteais

An eighteenth-century palace in Sintra with painted rooms attributed to Jean Pillement and a triumphal arch of 1802 between its two wings, a hotel since 1954.

30 rooms

Palace Hotel do Bussaco

Begun in 1888 as a hunting palace for the last kings of Portugal, Luigi Manini's neo-Manueline building has been a hotel since 1917.

Reid's Palace, A Belmond Hotel

William Reid, who landed on Madeira in 1836 at fourteen, chose the clifftop; his sons opened the hotel in 1891, and Churchill painted from its terraces in 1950.

79 rooms