Casa da Eira is situated between the two villages of Valença and Monção, in the north of Portugal. monks who belong to the Sanfins de friestas monastery built this beautiful house in the XVII century. Before it was remodele and adapted for rural tourism it used to be a farm house. The original rustic atmosphere was maintained due to the granary and the threshing floor ''eira'' on which cornused to be laid out to dry in the sun and which gave the house its name. Its localization on the top of a hill offers an excellent by a magnificent and quiet garden.
When eating in the area the specialtes are trout from the river Minho and, between January and March, lamprey which is a fish without fins wich resembles an eel and is an 'acquired' taste. a king of England is reputedly to have died from 'a surfeit of lamprey' but nowm is not found in any of their rivers because it is one of the fthe first to leave waters with any pollution. the local Alvarinho wine is thye finest vinho verde wine and most expensive.