
Santa Clara 1728
Lisbon, Portugal
Comprising just six rooms, Santa Clara 1728, which is located on one of Lisbon’s most romantic squares, occupies one of the few homes to survive the city’s calamitous 18th-century earthquake. Inside, designer Manuel Aires Mateus’ clean, modern additions breathe new life into ancient walls and worn, limestone stairs. Rooms are kitted out in coarse linens, pale woods and furnishings by designer Antonio Citterio, a neutral palette that is boosted by splashes of duck egg blue. For their part, bathrooms are practically monastic. Walls covered in hand-cut white tiles, the pinewood flooring and shelving act in soft counterpoint to a vast freestanding tub, large enough to sail across the Mediterranean, and deep, cylindrical wash basins, both carved out of pinky-beige Portuguese Lioz limestone, sourced from quarries near Sintra. For those who prefer to their bathing experience vertical, each comes with an adjacent wet-room, complete with industrial-sized shower, which overlook the hotel’s gardens.
Campo de Santa Clara 128, T 35.1 934 418 316, www.santaclara1728.com