« I dreamt every corner, every nook, every shadow, and as a hostess, I would like to welcome you and guide you through the pages of this new, reborn and “ wonderful kingdom “ ». Dr. ª Delfina Antunes - Owner.

History doesn´t tell us who laid the first stone of the House of St. Michael the Archangel. The old days go back to the great-grandfather of the owner, Manoel Antunes, brother of Viscount of Penedo, António Antunes Sobrinho, whose childhood certainly took place around the house and the water channels in the lands of Lamelas and Fagilde. His son, Professor José Vieira Antunes, married Delfina Oliveira Trindade, and the whole of the family´s life was spent in the house. Due to the premature death of her mother Teresa Maria, Delfina Oliveira Trindade grew up in Caniçada with her uncle, Dr. Casimiro de Oliveira, medical doctor who was also the uncle of the well-renowned and Cannes price winner filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira. During his lifetime, his son Aníbal Garibaldi Rebelo Antunes, chief inspector of the Oporto Judicial Police, whose heiresses were his two daughters, both medical doctors. The youngest inherited the house and the lands of St. Michael the Archangel. These are the roots of the space designed to elevate the senses, for the pleasure of deep communion with Mother Nature, where she becomes fully generous, in the lands of Caniçada /Gerês, framed in the mountainous amphitheatre, deepened by the calmness and quietness of the Cávado River. This space can also be a refuge and inspiration for those who have Art and Culture as their passion. The rooms’ names privilege poetic expression, honouring some of the greatest Portuguese poets, Camões, Fernando Pessoa, Sophia de Mello Breyner, Eugénio de Andrade and Miguel Torga. At the house of St. Michael the Archangel you will also find a library where poetry has a special presence. This is the atmosphere of complicity, of silences, of words spoken and dreamed to which we invite you to discover this house, reborn from century-old stones that tell us surprising stories. The flavour and scent of Minho, the mountains and the rivers create the perfect and natural atmosphere of an ancient and untouchable time.