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irst came the vision...
When Carlos Montez Champalimaud, grandfather of the present family
owners bought Quinta da Marinha in the early 1920’s, he envisaged
the creation of a residential estate of exception quality.
In those years, exiled European royalty were starting to built
their houses at Estoril.
Then, Cascais was a small fishing village and the wild coastline
of rocks and beaches stretched uninhabited to Cabo da Roca –
the most westerly point of Continental Europe.
 Soon
the creation began...
Carlos Champalimaud planted forests and with rare foresight started
the process of stabilising the sand dunes.
He tired the leading English architects – Cacket and Burns
– to prepare the first urban plan of Quinta da Marinha for
the village council os Cascais. Subsequently, roads were opened
up and a few houses built when in 1937 Carlos Champalimaud died.
The carrying philosophy of the family for Marinha has remained
although the plans have matured with years.
Golf courses, tennis courts, swimming pools and the equestrian centre
– not considered in the 1920’s are part of the community
of today.
Carlos Champalimaud’s vision of a carefully planned estate
of the highest quality, developed whilst respecting the natural
environment is now being realised.
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