About the house
Casa Lume is a townhouse from 1897 on a quiet street in Miragaia, restored floor by floor and opened as a hotel in 2016: fourteen rooms, a kitchen in the old wine cellar and a bath house in the laundry.
Restored floor by floor
A cork merchant built the house with his office on the ground floor and his family above it. When Inês Moura bought it in 2014, the staircase was sound and little else was.
The tiles on the front are the originals, taken down and cleaned one by one. The chestnut stairs were sanded back by hand, and the cellar where we cook now kept wine for a century.
At the desk
Inês Moura
Owner
Bought the house in 2014 and restored it floor by floor. Still chooses every bedside book.
Rui Antunes
Head of the kitchen
Cooks what the market had that morning, and nothing it did not.
Clara Weiss
Night porter
Keeps the front door, the bar and the late arrivals, from 22:00 until breakfast.
Built in 1897. Fourteen rooms over four floors. Three minutes on foot to the river.
Winter in Porto is quiet and green.
From November to March, stay three nights and the third is on the house. Breakfast in the garden room is always included.