Quintã de Brunhais is located in Lugar do Alto de Leiradela, in Brunhais, in the Union of Parishes of Esperança and Brunhais), in the Municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso, District of Braga. A typically Minho property, it has a total area of around 9,500 m2, where there is a house with a footprint of 258 m2, 2 floors and a construction area of 546 m2.
Located in Alto de Leiradela de Brunhais, at an altitude of around 340 m, on the slope of Monte do Castro, the property has an open and stunning view over the south bank of the Ave river and over Marouço (Serra de Fafe Basto). It is in a rural area, with green fields planted with vineyards, with vegetable gardens and grazing animals, very peaceful. The property has a water spring.
The house is a typical wealthy Minho farmer's house, with structural granite walls. It has a portal engraved with the date 1743, the date on which the original house is thought to have been expanded to its current dimensions. It has an interior courtyard, two floors of housing and, at a lower level, a threshing floor (indoor and outdoor). The property also has an outdoor swimming pool, a spring that flows into a granite tank, olive trees, fruit trees, holly and oaks. #ref: 103186