A private retreat on the southern slope of the mountain. Opening 2027.
Join the Founders ListVeluma House began as a question: what would a retreat look like if it weren't one?
Not a wellness resort. Not a hotel with a yoga room. Not a program, a protocol, or a seven-day reset.
A house — four bedrooms across three buildings, a sauna in stone, a kitchen worth sitting in, mornings that unfold at their own pace. Where the light matters more than the Wi-Fi, and the silence takes three days to hear properly.
We are building it inside a 19th-century ruin on a south-facing slope of the Serra de Monchique. Construction begins in 2027. The first guests will arrive in the autumn.
The Serra de Monchique rises from the south of Portugal forty minutes before the coast becomes the Atlantic. Cork oak and chestnut, eucalyptus and olive. Water that still comes from springs. A climate held mild by the ocean on one side and the mountain on the other.
There is no resort here. No airport traffic. A small town with a Sunday market and two cafés that have been there long enough. This is the kind of quiet that takes time to hear.
A main house rebuilt from the original ruin: two bedroom suites, a long open kitchen, a communal room that becomes a studio at sunrise. A Finnish sauna built in local stone. Two small cabins in the olive grove, each with its own kitchen and a private view of the mountain.
No lobby. No check-in. No schedule except the ones you bring.
A second phase — additional cabins, a wellness pavilion, and a second location — will be announced to the Founders List first.
I was born in Portugal. I have spent the last decade living in Sweden, working across the Nordic–Iberian corridor.
Veluma House is what happens when you stop commuting between two climates and decide to build something that holds both — the restraint of the North, the warmth of the South, and the land of a family that has known it for three generations.
We will share the rest slowly.
— Miguel Baptista, Founder
We are keeping numbers small. The first people on the list will receive private progress updates, early access to stays when bookings open, and founding-member rates reserved for the first season.
One email, perhaps two, per quarter. Nothing else.