Luxury villa to rent in Carvalhal, Comporta, Portugal

A really good contemporary holiday house with a boho chic beach vibe.

A modern, spacious, contemporary holiday home on the exclusive Casas da Encosta domaine.

The property features a front garden with a heated pool and electric cover, and sea views. There is another garden behind the house with shady spots for relaxing.

The house has simple, clean lines and cool, elegant interiors. Of the four bedrooms, all three double rooms have double/twin beds and the fourth bedroom is a four single bed dorm, making it particularly good for families with children or teenagers. All bedrooms are equipped with air conditioning and mosquito screens.

The house is ideally located between Pego Beach with its excellent JNCQuoi restaurant and beach club on one side, and Comporta village on the other, making it easy for everyone to get out and about on bikes.

A luxury beach villa to rent near Carvahal, Comporta, Portugal.

We love the contemporary open space design of the house.

Casa de Praia is a private holiday home situated on a secure gated estate just outside Carvahal. The villa is at the top of the estate with a large garden  filled with cork and pine trees. 

The house has been beautifully designed, with contemporary fittings, large open space kitchen and voluminous rooms with en-suite bathrooms.

The modern rooms are set along a long corridor, built with great floor to ceiling windows looking out to the front garden.

The last room is a bunk room with 4 large single beds and two extra hidden below.

The house is minutes walk from the local village which has a variety of convenience shop, restaurants and cafes. It is a short cycle (or drive) along a little road to the massive sandy Carvahal beach where you can also find a surf school and beach restaurants.

SJ Villas loves this private  estate designed by Portuguese decorator Marta Mantero.

Casa de Muda is one of the largest private estates in area with over 11 hectares of private land. 

The estate is made up of four cabanas, three for the bedrooms and one main cabanas with the open kitchen, indoor dining area and living room. 

The cabanas look out onto the pool and outdoor dining area. There are plenty of seating areas dotted about the estate, including a large veranda for the children. 

The estate feels spacious and very calming, surrounded by hectares of pine and cork trees.

Located in the Muda Reserve, it is about a 15 minute drive to the trendy Pego beach and about 20 mins to Comporta town. 

A luxury villa to rent in Comporta, Portugal

A hippie-chic home with breathtaking views of Comporta’s verdant rice fields.

Comporta is rice paddy land. Striped fields of rice, the biggest in Portugal, stretch all the way down the coast, sheltered from the stiff Atlantic breezes by golden sand dunes. They are kept green and bounteous by a criss-crossing network of irrigation canals, hence the reason why, roughly translated, Comporta means a floodgate or lock. Changing through the seasons from vibrant emerald green to waterlogged and glistening, the paddies present a picture of rustic, rural life that’s sadly dwindling across much of modern Europe.

Few houses have better views of the rice fields than Casa Mina, whose lavender-fringed lap pool, spacious wooden decks and pillow-piled day beds are all pointed at the paddies, where storks and flamingos are also regularly seen.

The setting is enhanced by the villa’s own gardens, which have been beautifully landscaped by Louis Benech, who recently worked on the gardens at Versailles. Inside, a large reception room is great for entertaining, and four comfy double bedrooms come with en-suite bathrooms and modern air conditioning.

Away from the paddies in the other direction, it’s only a few minutes to the Comporta beaches. One of our favourites is Praia do Pego, where the hottest ticket is a table for lunch at Restaurante Sal, where locals pull on their Sunday best to feast on the likes of freshly grilled fish, octopus-ink risotto and endless carafes of rosé.

A luxury villa to rent in Comporta, Portugal

Everything you could want from a Comporta beach house, even a treehouse. 

Casa do Beijaflor is built in true Comporta style, with polished concrete floors, slatted wooden decks, whitewashed walls, thatched roofs hooped with tightly packed grasses from the surrounding riverbanks, and exposed wooden beams from the pine forests.

Like many of the houses around here, there are no gates or high walls, just quaint wooden walkways and sandy tracks that lead to the dunes and the beaches beyond.

Cushioned day beds and a variety of outdoor living spaces make the most of the views of the surrounding rice fields, which flick from waterlogged to luminous green as the seasons change.

This is one of the most fertile regions in Portugal, criss-crossed by canals and stripey fields of rice. In the heat of the summer, when the south of the country is dusty and dry, Comporta thrums with life. Fields beam with glowing red poppies and yellow carpets of wildflowers. Storks nest on the tops of telephone pylons. And stalls pepper the roadsides, piled with watermelons, artichokes and tomatoes that taste like sunshine.

Perfect for teenagers, a treehouse just to side the of the main house provides a whimsical fifth bedroom; the others are spread across a series of pavilions and are all en-suite and clearly decorated by someone with a flair for interior design.

In high season the house has private access to a gorgeous stretch of beach where the house staff have a tent and can organise picnics. It’s all part of the fuss-free way of life for which Comporta is so loved.