Mercearia da Vila — Hotel in Ponte de Lima

The Mercearia offers hotel rooms above what was once a grocery store in central Ponte de Lima, just behind the Parish Church (whose clock chimes and bells are mercifully silent during the night). Delicious ample cold buffet breakfasts are served in the former shop, with antique shop fillings and shelves stocked with wines and historic dry goods as charming background. The comfortable rooms upstairs are named and colour-themed around groceries; soap, sugar, red peppers, chocolate etc. There is some interesting and tastefully-delicate decorative metalwork in wall niches as you go up the stairs. Altogether a charming experience on our (non-Caminho) walking holiday. For evening meals there is a wealth of good, reasonably-priced restaurants within a few...

Me and a friend of mine stayed here for our Ponte De Lima stop during Camino Portuguese and we ended up staying another night!

Once a humble grocery store, now an artsy boutique hotel where history, personal passion, and creative design meet.

Rodrigo the owner, Juliana the receptionist and her mom Eva were all so wonderful! They were very pleasant and accommodating. They made sure we got everything we needed and had a comfortable stay.

Location was amazing! Right at downtown of Ponte De Lima. Close to all attractions, restaurants, shops, pharmacy, churches etc. Brekky was also wonderful!! I highly recommend a stay in this...

This was a former village grocer store and has kept many original features of it, for example, the breakfast room is still laid out as the store would have been many years ago.|The hotel is small centrally located with approx 8 rooms and provides only bed and breakfast which was continental in style (fresh orange juice to die for). Note there is no lift but the hotel was modernised and well maintained. Rooms were spacious and clean and in our room one of the balconies overlooked the church and the river beyond.|The proprietor was friendly and helpful and would...