monchique

The mountain's medicine cabinet - every plant that heals, shelters, or feeds, growing wild.

Serra de Monchique's botanical abundance painted with rustic energy: cork oak with its exposed red-brown bark, strawberry tree heavy with scarlet fruits, white cistus marked with purple spots, tree heath in pale pink, golden broom lighting up the undergrowth. Rolling green hills recede into mist behind the foreground flora. The palette is rich, verdant, earthy, the polar opposite of the coast's bleached-out blue and gold.

Serra de Monchique belongs in properties that honour the mountain: rural boutique hotels, eco-lodges, agriturismo guest rooms, and fireplace rooms where the view from the window is green hills and the wine on the table is local. This painting says 'we are mountain people.'

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