Pousada de Beja - Sao Francisco

Address: Lg.D.Nuno Álvares Pereira, Beja, Portugal


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Available rates for02 Jun 2012 - 03 Jun 2012
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Hotel details

Location.
Pousada de Beja Sao Francisco is located in Beja, close to Convento de Nossa Senhora da Conceicao, Praca da Republica, and Beja Castle.

Hotel Features.
Pousada de Beja Sao Francisco features a restaurant and a bar/lounge. Room service is available during limited hours. The hotel serves a complimentary buffet breakfast. Recreational amenities include an outdoor pool. This 4 star property offers a meeting/conference room and audio visual equipment. Wireless Internet access (surcharge) is available in public areas. This Beja property has event space consisting of conference/meeting rooms and exhibit space. Guest parking is complimentary. Additional property amenities include a rooftop terrace, an arcade/game room, and laundry facilities.

Guestrooms.
Air conditioned guestrooms at Pousada de Beja Sao Francisco feature minibars and safes. Bathrooms feature handheld showerheads, bidets, and hair dryers. In addition to complimentary newspapers, guestrooms offer direct dial phones. LCD televisions have premium satellite channels.



Notifications and Fees:

The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check in, or check out.

  • Fee for wireless Internet in all public areas: EUR 3 (for 1 hours, rates may vary)

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.



Notifications and Fees:

The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check in, or check out.

  • Fee for wireless Internet in all public areas: EUR 3 (for 1 hours, rates may vary)

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

Check-In

3 PM

Check-Out

Noon

Area attractions

Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or attraction, and may not reflect actual travel distance.

Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometre.

Convento de Nossa Senhora da Conceicao 0.2 km / 0.1 mi
Praca da Republica 0.5 km / 0.3 mi
Beja Castle 0.6 km / 0.4 mi

The preferred airport for Pousada de Beja Sao Francisco is Lisbon (LIS Portela) 138.9 km / 86.3 mi.

Hotel facilities
• Rooftop terrace • One meeting/conference room
• Tennis on site • Room service
• Garden • Arcade/game room
• Laundry facilities • Tour assistance
• Wireless (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge • Accessible path of travel
• Internet access - wireless • 24-hour front desk
• Complimentary newspapers in lobby • Safe-deposit box - front desk
• Parking (free) • Exhibit space
• Pool table • Air-conditioned public areas
• Audio-visual equipment • Conference room(s)
• Room service (limited hours) • Restaurant(s) in hotel
• Elevator/lift • Swimming pool - outdoor
• Bar/Lounge • Complimentary Breakfast
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Quick description

Situated in a former 13th-century Franciscan convent in the heart of Beja’s historical centre, Pousada Beja offers charming rooms with original features. Facilities include an outdoor pool and a tennis court.The air-conditioned rooms at Pousada Beja - São Francisco are decorated with warm colours and wooden furniture. All rooms have cable TV, a minibar, and an en suite bathroom.Guests can enjoy regional dishes as well as international classics in the restaurant. Room service is available as well.The 24-hour reception can help arrange a variety of activities, including bicycle tours, horse riding trips, and country walks.Castelo de Beja is only 700 metres from Pousada Beja, and Museu Rainha Dona Leonor is just 300 metres away. Free parking is available on site.

Check-In

14:00

Check-Out

12:00

Located in the heart of the historic centre, the Pousada de Beja São Francisco is a historic luxury hotel in Beja, the capital of Portugal's Baixo Alentejo sub region. You can visit the town's imposing Roman castle with its marble keep called the Torre de Menagem, one of the tallest of its kind, as well as the extensive curtain walls which used to have as many as 40 towers. Around the Praça da República you can admire some fine Renaissance palaces and there is an interesting museum, the Museu da Rainha D. Leonor, which has a large collection of late Gothic, Renaissance and baroque paintings, azulejos and funerary monuments. The Pousada de Beja is also a historic monument in itself, located in the 13th century Franciscan convent of São Francisco, which features a rectangular Gothic chapel with a polygonal apse. After having been a centre for prayer and meditation for centuries, this hotel is the ideal place to take a break from the stresses of daily life and enjoy a relaxing holiday with your friends, family or loved ones. During August and September, there is even a kids club available, where you can leave your children to have fun while you enjoy some time to yourselves. Among the hotel's top-notch facilities, you will find a pristine swimming pool and a tennis court, where you can work up an appetite before dining at the hotel's gourmet restaurant. You can also transform this former convent into a corporate retreat, as there are numerous meeting rooms here too, as well as Internet Point and wireless Internet access in the meeting rooms and public areas.

The first records of S. Francis Convent, date from the 10th November of 1268, marking the donation of lands, for its construction, from Paio Pires to Lopo Esteves. The building restoring allow us, today, to contemplate the Old Church, area where are held meetings, congress and exhibitions today. Walking through the square cloister, that rounds the inner patio, our mind drives along history. As we reach the Gothic Chapel, the old Thumbs Chapel, the quietness and peace of mind are unquestionable, due o its beauty and simplicity. Entering the Chapter Room, where great decisions where once held, in order to help people in need, this renewed spaces invite now to a relaxing reading. In the centre of the cloister there is a cistern with water to serve all the building hold in four pillars, beneath the floor.