MS Collection Aveiro Palacete de Valdemouro

Our take

A 19th-century palacete in the centre of Aveiro, restored with enough restraint to let the architecture do the talking. Come here for intimate rooms, genuinely attentive service, and a city that rewards slow walking — the canals, the azulejo facades, the moliceiro boats. Culture-hungry couples and architecture obsessives will feel immediately at home. But if your holiday requires a spa, a pool, or sand underfoot, this is the wrong address entirely. Two or three nights of Aveiro done with real elegance — that's the brief, and it delivers.