Eight rebuilt villages and hamlets, split into the five where you book a whole house and the three where you book a room. Two of those three let rooms rather than houses, and the third takes groups of up to sixty-five. The photographs are the properties' own Instagram posts, embedded from accounts we checked belong to them.
Names and reasons come first here. Where a property's own Instagram post can stand in, it loads only when you ask for it; otherwise an entry stays in words until the owner has told us we may publish a picture of their house.
01
Aldeia de Pontes
North, Mainland Portugal
This is the house that is one of seven granite houses in a Peneda-Gerês hamlet left empty in the 2000s and rebuilt by one couple alongside its cachena herd and bee hives.
The building
Seven granite houses in a hamlet emptied in the 2000s
Size
Seven houses, sleeping three to eight
Reach it by
The municipality is Melgaço, not Ponte da Barca
The tradeoff
No two houses are the same size, three to eight
Checked
August 2026, against the property's own pages
Seven restored stone houses, let whole, and none of them the same size: Casa do Lume takes eight, do Padre five, da Pelica and da Figueira six each, da Eira and da Corga four, da Forja three. The hamlet is at Pontes, in Castro Laboreiro, inside the Peneda-Gerês National Park — the municipality is Melgaço rather than Ponte da Barca, which is worth having right before you drive. The cattle and the hives are part of the same recovery, not a display.
Not a Casoneta feature — the link goes to the property's own page.
02
Aldeia da Cuada
Flores, Azores
Instagram · @aldeia_da_cuada
This property's photos live on its own Instagram. Showing it loads the post from Instagram (Meta), which may set cookies — and one click shows every Instagram post on this page and is remembered by your browser. Nothing loads from Meta until you choose.
This is the house that is one of sixteen basalt houses in Cuada, a Flores hamlet emptied by emigration and rebuilt as a village you sleep inside.
The building
Sixteen basalt houses in a hamlet emptied by emigration
Size
Sixteen houses
The tradeoff
A small village with guests in it, not a house to yourself
Checked
August 2026, against the property's own pages
Sixteen restored stone houses at Fajã Grande, on the western end of Flores, let whole as rural tourism rather than as hotel rooms. Sixteen is the largest count in this list, so read it as a small village with guests in it rather than a house you have to yourself. Reservations run on the village's own engine.
Not a Casoneta feature — the link goes to the property's own page.
03
Cerdeira Home for Creativity
Centre, Mainland Portugal
This is the house that is one of ten restored schist cottages in a rebuilt mountain village of artisans, with no TV in any of them.
The building
Ten restored schist cottages in a mountain village of artisans
Size
Ten cottages, two to six guests each
The tradeoff
No TV in any of the cottages
Checked
August 2026, against the property's own pages
Ten schist cottages in the Serra da Lousã, in the Coimbra district, taking between two and six guests each and booked whole. They are named rather than numbered — do Vale, da Árvore, das Estórias, do Mel, da Azeitona, das Vizinhas, do Sol, da Escada, do Forno, da Janela — which tells you the operation is village-sized and means you should pick one rather than take what you are given.
Not a Casoneta feature — the link goes to the property's own page.
04
Aldeia da Mata Pequena
Lisbon Region, Mainland Portugal
This is the house that is one of a dozen Saloia farm houses rebuilt from ruins in a hamlet forty minutes from Lisbon, under the basalt chimney of Penedo do Lexim.
The building
A dozen Saloia farm houses rebuilt from near-total ruin
Size
A dozen houses
Reach it by
Forty minutes from Lisbon, reachable in an evening
The tradeoff
The drive is short and the hamlet is not remote
Checked
August 2026, against the property's own pages
A dozen Saloia houses at Igreja Nova, in Mafra, brought back from near-total ruin by their owners Ana Partidário and Diogo Batalha and let whole. It is the one on this list you could reach from Lisbon in an evening, which cuts both ways: the drive is short and the hamlet is not remote.
Not a Casoneta feature — the link goes to the property's own page.
05
Casona de Labrada
Lugo, Galicia
Instagram · @casonadelabrada
This property's photos live on its own Instagram. Showing it loads the post from Instagram (Meta), which may set cookies — and one click shows every Instagram post on this page and is remembered by your browser. Nothing loads from Meta until you choose.
This is the house that is a hayloft, a hawk's house and four other Lugo farm buildings rebuilt from recycled material inside a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
The building
A hayloft, a hawk's house and four other farm buildings
Size
Six units, sleeping two to thirteen
The tradeoff
The unit sizes run from two guests to thirteen
Checked
August 2026, against the property's own pages
Six units, and the spread between them is unusual: the Palleira takes two to six, Casa do Azor ten to thirteen, Casa Rivas two to six, Casa Cotarelo and Casa Corbeiras two apartments each, and there is a cabin suite for two. Almost all of it lets whole rather than by the room. It sits at A Pontenova, inside the Río Eo, Oscos e Terras de Burón biosphere reserve, designated in 2007.
Not a Casoneta feature — the link goes to the property's own page.
06
Aldea A Paínza
A Coruña, Galicia
This is the house that is one of eight in a rebuilt eighteenth-century Galician village — church, pazo, tavern and cruceiro included — that you can take over entirely.
The building
Eight houses in a rebuilt eighteenth-century Galician village
Size
Eight houses, groups of six to sixty-five
Shared space
Its own church, pazo, tavern and cruceiro
The tradeoff
Takes groups of up to sixty-five and can be privatised for the day
Checked
August 2026, against the property's own pages
Eight rural-tourism houses making up a restored eighteenth-century village with its own church, pazo, tavern and cruceiro, at Viladavil in Arzúa. It takes groups from six to sixty-five and the whole village can be privatised for the day: at the top of that range it is an event venue. The Camino Norte runs past it, about three kilometres from the Camino Francés.
Not a Casoneta feature — the link goes to the property's own page.
07
Aldea Rural Pazos de Arenteiro
Ourense, Galicia
This is the house that occupies three of the medieval stone houses of Pazos de Arenteiro, a listed village the council bought back and rehabilitated one deed at a time.
The building
Three medieval stone houses in a listed village
Size
Nine double rooms and a suite
Shared space
A restaurant, bar, gym and business centre on site
The tradeoff
You are booking a room in a village, not a village
Checked
August 2026, against the property's own pages
Registered as an aldea de turismo rural: nine double rooms and a suite spread across three of the village's stone houses, with a restaurant, a bar, a gym and a business centre on site, open year-round. The village itself is a listed historic-artistic ensemble, declared in 1973, at Boborás in Ourense. You are booking a room in a village, not a village.
Not a Casoneta feature — the link goes to the property's own page.
08
Aldea Rural Santo André
Ourense, Galicia
Instagram · @aldearuralsantoandre
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This is the house that is a rehabilitated Ourense hamlet let to one group at a time, with a shared hearth kitchen and ten thousand square metres of meadow behind it.
The building
A rehabilitated Ourense hamlet let to one group
Size
One apartment and six rooms, twenty-six guests at most
Shared space
A shared hearth kitchen and dining room
The tradeoff
Taken by the room rather than whole, it stops reading as a village
Checked
August 2026, against the property's own pages
One apartment and six rooms, twenty-six guests at most, with a shared kitchen and dining room, a restaurant open to the public, a social centre with a library and a bar, and more than ten thousand square metres of meadow and woodland. It is at Congostro, in Rairiz de Veiga, in the Área de Allariz biosphere reserve near the Xurés natural park. Taken by one group it reads as a village; taken by the room it does not.
Not a Casoneta feature — the link goes to the property's own page.
A rebuilt village is a specific thing, not a nicer word for a hotel with several
buildings. The eight here were all emptied first — by emigration, by
depopulation, by heirs scattering until nobody could sell anything — and then
bought back and put together again. Five of them hand you a whole house with its
own door. Three of them hand you a room.
The five are not interchangeable, and the counts are the reason. Casona de
Labrada is six converted farm buildings; Aldeia de Pontes is seven granite
houses with cattle and hives on the same ground; Cerdeira is ten schist
cottages; Aldeia da Mata Pequena is a dozen Saloia houses; Aldeia da Cuada is
sixteen. At six you can meet everyone staying there. At sixteen you cannot, and
that is a different holiday, so we have put every count in the entries rather
than in a footnote.
Two of the three below them are run as rooms — nine doubles and a suite at
Pazos de Arenteiro, six rooms and an apartment at Santo André, each with a
restaurant attached. A Paínza is the exception:
eight whole houses, but a village that takes groups of up to sixty-five and can
be privatised for the day, which is a wedding as easily as a week away.
What the counts do not tell you is what was rebuilt. Labrada’s six are a
hayloft, a hawk’s house and four other Lugo farm buildings put back up out of
recycled material inside a biosphere reserve; Pazos de Arenteiro is three
medieval stone houses in a village the council bought back one deed at a time.
Aldeia de Pontes came back with its cachena herd and its hives, which are part
of the same recovery rather than a display.
None of the eight is featured here. Every link goes to the property’s own page.
