Vidago Palace

Vidago Palace Hotel in the Trás-os-Montes region of northern Portugal is one of the great architectural monuments of Belle Époque spa culture in the Iberian Peninsula, a magnificent Art Nouveau palace set in an English-style park of century-old sequoias, lime trees, and camellias where the naturally carbonated bicarbonate mineral water rising from deep granite formations has been prescribed for digestive, hepatic, and renal conditions since the nineteenth century when the Portuguese royal family established their summer court at this extraordinary granite estate. The spring water of Vidago, naturally effervescent with carbon dioxide from the granitic geology and recognised for its digestive and anti-inflammatory properties, is bottled commercially as one of Portugal's most prestigious mineral waters while simultaneously providing the therapeutic foundation of the accredited medical spa programme operated within the palace's restored and modernised wellness facilities. The combination of one of Portugal's finest pieces of early twentieth-century architecture, a magnificent parkland setting in the dramatic granite highlands of Trás-os-Montes, and mineral waters of genuinely exceptional quality and character makes Vidago Palace one of the most distinguished spa hotels on the Iberian Peninsula.