• About casa azul

  We found Casa Azul one wet Monday morning in May 2009. It was just what we were after - a decrepit farmhouse in the depths of Central Portugal. Now restored, this is the story of its, and our, continuing renaissance.

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  time: 2:31 pm

  

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  22°C

  real feel: 23°C

  wind speed: 7 mph NNW

  sunrise: 6:05 am

  sunset: 9:06 pm
   

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