Farmhouse with 20th century palace

Quinta do Casalito, a cultural heritage site, is a property of over 2.5 hectares with extraordinary potential.
Located in the village of Meia Via, Torres Novas, a region of thin land, Meia Via has always been part of the parish of Santiago, until July 3, 2001, when it became autonomous and was renamed the parish of Meia Via, making it the most recent parish in the municipality of Torres Novas.
This Portuguese parish is located in the center of the country, 5 minutes from the A23 and 10 minutes from the A1. Its 20th century mansion (built in 1937) has an architectural project by the famous architect Raul Lino (1879-1974), well known for combining the Portuguese tradition of "Casas Portuguesas" with the innovative European trends of the early 20th century.

Raul Lino was inspired by Frank Lloyd Whright, articulating his architectural conception with the spirit of the place, valuing the landscape and decorating the interior spaces with traditional materials of a functional nature, as the Arts and Crafts would have it.
He planned each space according to the needs of its users, making the house a work of art where both individual and collective use were considered. Although it is not one of his award-winning works, this 591m2 mansion has four floors and 26 rooms, embellished by balconies and connected by corridors. It has 14 bedrooms, one of which is a suite, 4 bathrooms, 2 kitchens, 1 central hall, from which all the rooms sprout 3 corridors a turret with a fireplace and breathtaking viewsComposed of 3 floors;
Ground floor, 1st floor, 2nd floor - "Eagle's Nest" turret and basement, it has been carefully maintained and personalized with the implementation of individual crockery and tiles and period furniture, which defined the "name" of each room and equipment modernized to the functionality of the current daily routine, until the date it was inhabited.

All areas have excellent natural light.
Ground floor:-living room areas, one of which has a fireplace, -office -1 dining room, next to the kitchen area, with a direct entrance to it, and access to the small "atrium" of the staircase, with access to the outside via a balcony door. small room with access to the staircase, communicating with the central corridor, closed by interior doors, with the lower floor, the basement and the dining room.- kitchen, equipped and composed of two areas, pantry and dining area, communicating with the dining room and with the outside, through a balcony door.
1st floor:- 5 bedrooms- two of which are adjoining- 1 middle bedroom with dressing room;- Master bedroom- 1 balcony overlooking the town center; church atrium- 2 bathrooms, 1 in the bedroom and the other with a shared bathroom, the main one.22nd floor:-Torreão, with an open-plan living room with fireplace, flanked by wooden shelves in the "pure white" color of the walls and large windows that surround the entire area, providing natural lighting and views, out of the ordinary, in communion and symbiosis with the exterior surroundings of unique characteristics and artificial, existing inside the entire ceiling molding. (access to the attic area, only under one wing of the house)

Basement:-8 rooms- features the house's 4th full bathroom- Ceilings lined with wood and plaster- Laundry room- Kitchen- Floor-to-ceiling fireplace-Adega-Natural lighting, offered by transverse "tears" in the structural walls, leading to studied orientations of natural light throughout the remaining interior areas.The mansion is surrounded by 1,550m2 of garden which, after maintenance, will revive the obvious potential of this building set in a plot of 25,000 m2 of buildable urban and rural area.

The surrounding area includes : A long building with 211m2, subdivided into 3 housing units, namely T0, T1 and T2, as well as another long building, with around 250m2, of which the following stand out:

2. a small chapel, two generous garages, agricultural storage areas, with floor-to-ceiling fireplaces, in rural and countryside tertulia settings, and a stable with 4 stalls, with independent entrances.
3. On the other side, you enter another world: the Casalito building, with two floors, rectilinear spans of 403m2, divided over two floors, where we can clearly identify a party and events room, with a kitchen and bar area, duly equipped. Going down to the lower level, we enter a large open-plan living room, with a very horizontal and symmetrical composition, integrated with the rural tasks, countryside: wine cellars and gastronomy and equestrian activities, with direct access to the outside, with wide gates and adapted to the movement of horses, to the outdoor patios communicating with the riding arena and its annex which flanks, on one side, a small one-bedroom house, recovered with two living rooms, kitchen, WC and storage, whose porch displays a frank Ribatejo tradition.On the other side of the riding arena is a plot separated by a wall, where a second riding arena or a house independent of the farm could be built, leading to a housing estate, and access to water supply and sewage, with a tarmac road and public lighting.

In the remaining area of the farm, which has 3 water wells and 2 tanks, there is also an urban plot of 3,074.08 m2, where 7 houses can be built on 7 plots of land, with a direct exit to the second Quinta da Meia Via entrance. The open vegetation extends to a 26,520 m2 woodland development area, where there are other outbuildings.

In the lands of Meia Via, "(...) agricultural and artisanal activities typical of each era were carried out, in days of endless toil.""When the group of couples from "Espargal", the old village that later came to be called Meia Via, where, legend has it, the Riachos miners found the image of Sr. Jesus de Santiago, was already showing some strength, they built the chapel of Our Lady of Monserrate and the first reference to Meia Via appears in a religious parchment dated August 6, 1668."The exact date on which Meia Via was given this name is not known, but it is thought that it comes from the fact that the village was situated halfway along the royal road linking Lisbon/Coimbra and at the time had a public well where caravans stopped to rest their men and animals."At the beginning of the 19th century, the locals lived and subsisted on the basis of cultivating small agricultural plots and exploiting the wasteland that existed in Charneca and the surrounding area, when they were robbed of wood and firewood by the then council administrator of Torres Novas, a situation that was eventually resolved through petitions to the Royal Household.

"Main ActivitiesEconomic Activities: Industry, commerce and services.Festivals and Pilgrimages: Divine Holy Spirit Festivals: held annually on Pentecost Sunday.
Cultural Heritage: Quinta do Casalito, a 1920s building designed by the architect Raul Lino; 17th century cross reminiscent of the old 16th century chapel.Gastronomy: Silerca: a type of mushroom that is cooked in different ways, with various accompaniments. Handicrafts: Handmade trays and ribbon bowls, which are used in the feast of the Divine Holy Spirit and which are supplied for festivals in the surrounding areas.Teatro Meia Via - Associação Cultural de Torres Novas was founded on April 19, 2001, in a consolidation of the theatrical activity that had already been going on in the village of Meia Via for a hundred years and more regularly since the 80s.

This is a property with unique potential.
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