Former Monastery Hotels in Cacilhas

York House occupies a 17th-century Carmelite convent on Rua das Janelas Verdes, just uphill from the Tagus and close to the National Museum of Ancient Art. The building’s convent origins still show in the steep stone staircase leading to a sheltered garden terrace, cloister-like outdoor spaces and a somewhat labyrinthine layout. It has operated as a small hotel for over a century; its current name comes from two Yorkshire women who ran it in the late 19th century, giving an English twist to a very Portuguese religious building. Today it’s positioned as a historic hotel that layers contemporary rooms onto that older convent shell rather than trying to erase it.