Example sentences for: quintas

How can you use “quintas” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At the same time, the hotel offerings across the island are rapidly being expanded, and visitors can now choose from hotels, quintas (villas), estalagens and pousadas (inns) along the coasts and in the villages and mountains of the interior.

  • Monte has been a fashionable hilltop town ever since wealthy merchants and exiled European aristocrats in the 19th century built their splendid quintas up here in the cool air above Funchal.

  • The Douro Valley extending along the river east toward the Spanish border is one of the most attractive regions in Portugal, sprinkled with small villages, impressive quintas (agricultural estates), and beautifully terraced vineyards that dramatically hug the river as it courses through the valley.

  • In recent years a gleaming new high-rise zona turista has sprung up to confront the old-world hotels and distinguished quintas (rural estates) of Madeira’s more peaceful past.

  • The altitude of 670 m (2,200 ft) produces refreshing breezes, and explains why several wealthy British expats have chosen to build quintas here and why so many affluent Madeirans still flee the hot Funchal summer up into these hills.


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