Turkish Investors Will Bring Melides Luxury Homes And Hotels ♦ Turkish investors will build in Melides a shell-shaped hotel preview that fits the undulations of the grounds, with 28 rooms skirting the ground floor, with the overhead pool, restaurant and lobby above. In the Alentejo coast will be born the Umay project, with hotel and tourist residences that blend with the landscape, totalling investments of € 25 million. From Comporta to Melides there are tons of new hotels and tourism options: Louboutin will open a hotel, Melides was called the Ibiza of Portugal and Comporta is the Hamptons, the most recent news? Umay Melides – the most recent project in the Alentejo coast: with more than 40km and millions of euros invested, this project will help the with the growth of Comporta and Melides. Secrets From Portugal brings you one more reason to visit and to discover what Comporta’s future will be.
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The project has the taste of “new beginning of life” for Turkish couple Faik and Sera Yufkayürek, who left the financial and banking world – beyond their home country – to create in Alentejo a state-of-the-art hotel with associated tourist residences. , in an investment that will amount to € 25 million, with support from Portugal 2020.
Named Umay, the name of the Turkish fertility goddess, the tourism project will take place in Melides, on 20 hectares of land by the sea, where the construction will occupy no more than 4%, fitting within the natural undulations of the soil. The project is expected to begin next year, to be completed by the end of 2021.
Faik e Sera Yufkayürek are the masterminds behind this project that fell in love with Portugal at first sight. The couple immediately felt at home, or rather in a kind of sanctuary. For three weeks, they explored the outskirts of the capital – Arrábida, Sesimbra and Meco. “We were expecting to find beautiful landscapes, but it was the people who surprised us. Of course, there aren’t many places in Europe where you can buy land near the beach, overlooking the sea and an hour from the capital. Nature, good food, good people and a good set of values – the couple summarizes the formula that led him to fall in love, first with Portugal and then with Melides, which virgin version of a phenomenon called Comporta.
Pure nature spoke much louder than a hippie-chic style. Still, both recognize that the entire shoreline is in the sights of dozens of investors and that even a green oasis-like Melides is unlikely to change in the medium term. At the second attempt to buy, they got the ideal land. To merge a luxury resort with nature, Faik and Sera hired Portuguese Vasco Vieira, the architect responsible for the Areias do Seixo hotel in the West region. The woods, the curved lines, a central building camouflaged in the eyes of the newcomer, a terracotta-like cement – for now, Umay is visible only through simulations of the project. Still, you can get an idea of the colossus on its way to Melides. There are 28 rooms (six of them deluxe), 21 wooden houses (these are slightly elevated to create the treehouse feel), ten private villas, gardens and pools, a spa and restaurant and a 600 m2 greenhouse.
The investment is around 25 million euros. The houses and villas are for sale, prices range from 450,000 to 1,375,000 euros. Living in the complex is part of the Yufkayürek family’s plans. The sound of the crickets, the sandy soil and the smell of rosemary convinced Faik and Sera to make the first trip to the field. In addition, the sea is five kilometres away. Construction has not yet started, but the project is expected to be completed by 2021.
