If you bliss out on beach holidays, then take a look at Portugal’s new Martinhal Beach Resort & Hotel on the Western Algarve.

Opening in April 2010, the stylish, “barefoot luxury” resort has been designed with eco-conscious couples and families in mind.   Situated on Martinhal Beach, the resort is surrounded by the protected Costa Vicentina National Park and close to the small fishing port of Sagres.

London architect Matthew Wood of Conran & Partners chose a series of “environmentally sensitive” low-rise buildings that merge into the landscape of the resort’s beach location and the national park.

The resort will be comprised of the 38- bedroom boutique Hotel Martinhal, Village Houses and privately-owned villas and townhouses.  In the hotel and houses,  the interiors will include classic, modern, furniture and local natural materials such as cork and wicker.

The hotel’s gourmet restaurant ‘O Terraco’ will feature Portuguese wines and “light but sophisticated dishes” using locally caught fish, artisan grown and prepared meats and seasonal vegetables and fruit, all from Portugal.  In the village square, the ‘Mercado’ village store will also sell locally sourced fresh fish, meats, cheese, wine, bread and pastries.

At the Finisterra Spa, soothing treatments in its six wooden-clad rooms will be offered with Martinhal’s organic products.   For more active holidays, there will be wide-ranging activities available from surfing, windsurfing and kite surfing, mountain biking, horse riding, snorkeling to scuba diving.

For info on the resort, visit Martinhal.com.

Images courtesy of Martinhal Beach Resort & Hotel

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