About Us

OUR UNIQUE LOCATION

5 Star Hotel in the Medieval Quarter of Alfama

The Santiago is a family run Boutique Hotel housed in a fully restored 15th century palace. The hotel is snuggled equidistant between St George’s Castle and the beautiful Look-point – Santa Luzia – with views which ripple down the hillside littered with white washed churches, terracotta roof tops and down to the Tagus river – where the blue of the water meets the blue of the sky, all framed in a riot of pink and purple bougainvillea.

At the Santiago, we source locally, incorporate the wonderful local produce in our restaurant Audrey’s, named after our daughter. A fierce believer in animal welfare, sustainability and all things yummy – a beautiful human being that wants to spoil and indulge. 

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We love our business, where else can you come to work and meet interesting people that goes for our wonderful staff and our dear guests and friends.

Manuel & I have been adopted by Portugal – Manuel is our ultimate communicator, a background in telecoms, engineering and global finance who is actually a poet, a photographer, a lover of books and history and has finally joined us full time as all of the above.   Manuel is Anglo-Portuguese, born in South Africa and I am Dutch, brought up in New Zealand and immigrated here in the late 80’s.  We met, within a week of stepping ‘off the boat’, and the rest is history...

It’s a privilege to tell you about our city, to share this lovely place and hopefully bring a lot of old fashioned hospitality and a little glamour to your holiday.

Looking forward to meeting you soon.

Warm regards from Lisbon

Heleen

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