Positioned on the south financial institution of the Douro River, within the metropolis of Vila Nova de Gaia, the model new Tivoli Kopke Porto Gaia Hotel provides travellers a novel expertise that mixes the heritage of Tivoli Lodges & Resorts and Kopke, the oldest Port Wine Home on the earth, conveying a deep connection to the Portuguese tradition.
Constructed from the restoration of the centuries-old Kopke cellars, the Tivoli Kopke Porto Gaia is unfold throughout a property of 20,000 sqm, organized on terraces resembling the Douro vineyards and providing spectacular views of town of Porto, the Douro river and Luis I Bridge. The property has three distinct areas – Classic, Tawny and White – organized round a refurbished Kopke Port wine cellar that’s a part of the property constructing. With dozens of barrels the place greater than two million litres of Kopke wine are growing old, the cellar will quickly be open to company, inviting them to an immersive expertise with distinctive occasions and distinctive Port wine tastings.
The gathering of 149 visitor rooms and suites, welcomes company in a up to date and industrial fashion with signature Tivoli touches, whereas celebrating Kopke heritage. The inside design wraps the visitor rooms and suites in heat earth and burgundy tones, in addition to smooth, tactile leather-based and wool materials offering heat and texture. Historic images on the partitions inform the story of the Douro Valley, its vineyards and harvest season, paying homage to Port wine.
The gastronomic choices at Tivoli Kopke are below the helm of the famend Spanish Chef, Nacho Manzano, from the three Michelin-starred restaurant Casa Marcial, positioned within the area of Asturias, in northern Spain. His inventive and flavoured dishes might be tasted in two distinct eating places, every providing distinctive eating ideas.
The gastronomic choices at Tivoli Kopke are below the helm of the famend Spanish Chef, Nacho Manzano, from the three Michelin-starred restaurant Casa Marcial, positioned within the area of Asturias, in northern Spain. His inventive and flavoured dishes might be tasted in two distinct eating places, every providing distinctive eating ideas.
Boasting distinctive views over Porto metropolis and Douro river, the 1638 Restaurant & Wine Bar by Nacho Manzano presents a tasting menu with 11 moments celebrating haute delicacies mixed with essentially the most beautiful wines from the Douro area, together with famend Kopke Port wines and distinctive Douro DOC nonetheless wines from Quinta de São Luiz and Quinta da Boavista. Oyster with duck sauce and codium seaweed smoothie or Beef sirloin, seaweed pesto and pickled salad are a few of the stars of the restaurant’s first tasting menu, obtainable just for dinner and altering each two months.
Open for lunch and dinner, and a menu that pulls its roots from the Atlantic, mixed with top-notch inside design, Boa Vista Terrace by Nacho Manzano is the best spot for an informal meal withfriends and household or perhaps a enterprise lunch, overlooking Porto. Confit cod, mussels and cock rice are a few of the delicacies within the menu. From April to October the Sky Bar Kopke would be the place to take pleasure in signature Port cocktails, showcasing a extra relaxed option to take pleasure in port wine.
The lodge’s leisure amenities embody one outside heated swimming pool, a novel Tivoli Spa and a Tivoli Form health centre, with top-of-the-range Technogym gear. The property has 9,000 sqm of out of doors gardens together with an space with fragrant herbs for chef’s use and an entrance to an previous however restored pedestrian route referred to as «Caminho Romântico», giving company direct entry to Gaia’s riverside promenade and Luis I Bridge.
In Tivoli Spa the bespoke therapies are aligned with the singularity of the vacation spot and impressed by its native and natural parts. The Reserve Spa Expertise brings collectively the worlds of wine and well-being by combining Kopke wines with the therapeutic properties of aromatherapy and grapes. The signature remedy – The Essence of Kopke – contains the enduring schist stones, from the Douro valley, a mantle of fragrant cork stoppers and a wine-infused candle. The facial remedies characteristic the award-winning spa product manufacturers: Natura Bissé and The Hydrafacial. The 450 sqm of the Tivoli Spa contains 5 remedy rooms, a sauna, a steam room, and a hydrodynamic pool with phototherapy for pure rest. From the sauna and the hydro pool company can take pleasure in great views over Porto metropolis.
With 1,750 sqm of versatile indoor and outside assembly areas with views, the lodge provides spectacular settings, six absolutely outfitted assembly rooms and venues for all sorts of occasions – from VIP dinners and weddings to conferences and product launches, together with automobiles, which have direct entry to the occasions space. Finishing the lodge’s gastronomic expertise, Nacho Manzano will oversee the Assembly & Occasions banqueting menus, growing distinctive creations for particular events. The unique Kopke wine cellar, within the lodge, can be one other various for internet hosting distinct gatherings and celebrations.
Tivoli Kopke Porto Gaia desires to determine itself as cultural hub within the vacation spot and appeal to locals. Strolling by way of the lodge’s corridors and public areas is a chance to find its artwork assortment. The Kopke assortment of images by essentially the most well-known Portuguese photographer of the twentieth century, Domingos Alvão, tells the story of Douro vineyards in black and white alongside the hallways and within the bedrooms. The Abanca Basis has a everlasting exhibition of work with replicas of well-known artists such Picasso or Salvador Dalí, in the principle public areas. Tivoli Reside seasons have additionally been common since day one, with reside Bossa Nova exhibits each Thursday.
Positioned on the hillside of Vila Nova de Gaia, within the coronary heart of the native Port wine district, Tivoli Kopke Porto Gaia provides distinctive views over Porto metropolis and its conventional Cais da Ribeira and the emblematic Luís I Bridge. The lodge is strolling distance from important native sights with direct entry to the full of life and exquisite Gaia river entrance space, with its eating places, bars and retailers. Porto’s historic metropolis centre is only a few minutes’ stroll, Devesas practice station is shut by, and Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport is a brief 30-minute drive.
With a journey that dates again to 1933 in Lisbon, Tivoli Lodges & Resorts is a part of Minor Lodges and is well-known for its cultural heritage and real connection to every vacation spot. The model expanded from Portugal to Brazil, Qatar and China, and not too long ago has been rising its footprint additional into Europe with the primary openings in Spain, Italy and The Netherlands. Tivoli Kopke Porto Gaia can be its eighth property in Portugal.
Resort Tivoli Kopke Porto Gaia
R. do Barão de Forrester 69
Vila Nova de Gaia, 4400-034
Portugal
+351 22 410 5600