Terravista Golf Course
Terravista Golfcourse just 6km away from the villa.The most enchanting and challenging golf course in South America!! Situated on the southern coast of Bahia overlooking the colorful cliffs of Trancoso, Terravista harmoniously combines the region’s natural contours, vegetation and landscape with a first rate golf course. Designed and built by the world renowned North American architect Dan Blankenship, Terravista exceeds all expectations.Here, golfers have the opportunity to play between the turquoise sea and the lush Atlantic rainforest while being soothed by the sound of waves and the singing of tropical birds… Golfers who take on Terravista face two different golfing environments. The front nine is played amidst the Atlantic Rainforest, with temperatures, humidity and landscape characteristic of this area. The back nine, in contrast, offers dazzling views of the beach with four of its holes perched high upon the ocean cliffs. see pricelist
TRANCOSO
It’s worth arriving in Trancoso, a chic little town on the north-east Brazilian coast about 300 miles south of Salvador, at night-time. A preservation order means the Quadrado, the broad village green that makes up the town’s historic centre, has almost no outdoor electric light. Instead, after sunset, the boutique bars, shops and restaurants that now occupy most of the one-storey artisans’ houses on either side of the grass put out gently flickering coloured candles on their tables and window sills, giving the place a wonderfully fairy-tale feel. Above you a carpet of stars shines down and, perched on top of the cliffs near to where the Portuguese first landed in Brazil 500 years ago, a simple, slightly dilapidated church basks, with just the slightest ecclesiastical aloofness, in its (permitted) electric floodlighting. Starting at the bottom of the cliff, the sand stretches for hundreds of kilometres in either direction and, however busy the town seems to be, you can pretty soon find a quiet spot to yourself. Trancoso is a small historic, Indian village with a serene atmosphere, nice restaurants, shops and lounge bars. It is mentioned as a transcendant place and compared with Ibiza, Goa and Bali. The houses on the Quadrado have, as much as possible, been kept in their original form. With so much outdoor beauty, it's not surprising that in Trancoso you spend very little time indoors ... even when you are indoors.
Softly, softly under a Brazilian sky. By David Baker. Published: November 25 2005, Financial Times.
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