An independent apartment in the attic of an 18th-century building situated in the historic centre of Porto. Next to restaurants, shops and the Garden of Virtues from which you can contemplate the Douro River. It has 1 double room and a single room, maximum capacity 2 people over 18 years. Guest access You can use the common living room that is on the top floor and that faces the Douro River. Other things to note Casa das Virtudes is a small building with two facades, the main one on Rua Dr. Barbosa de Castro and the other on Passeio das Virtudes from where you can see the Douro River on its way to the sea, behind tall plane trees. On this side there is also the cultural cooperative Árvore and the Horto das Virtudes, a quiet public garden. The building built in the eighteenth century belonged to the great-great-grandparents of Luís Coutinho, one of the current owners. It was a single-family house, but in the century. XX began to be rented by floor. In the 90s it was bought from the other heirs, all floors were occupied and the building was very degraded. The rehabilitation of the building, in charge of the architects Fernanda Seixas and then Luís Peixoto, has preserved its characteristics as required in a city with a heritage as rich as Porto. At Casa das Virtudes, we seek to find a balance between the costs of recovery/maintenance and the income of the building, resisting the search for quick profit that threatens to turn Porto into a mere scenario. It houses 4 permanent tenants with low rents, who participate in the maintenance of the building and cultivate neighborhood relations. There are many artists who like to stay here. These are contacts that remained from an artistic residency center, based at Herdade da Tapada da Tojeira in Vila Velha de Ródão, It is in Tapada that organic olive oil, from the Tojeira brand, obtained in Luís Coutinho's own mill, is produced. Despite the distance, the connection between the cultural and the agricultural/environmental aspects also ended up contaminating the Casa das Virtudes. Registration Details 16768/AL