Ten languages for a house in Évora

In 2027 Évora is European Capital of Culture, and the idea that guides the programme is «vagar»: the Alentejo art of not being in a hurry, of paying attention to people, to nature and to place. To us it is a universal idea. Whoever pauses, listens; and whoever listens, understands.

It was also from here, from the south of Portugal, that the navigators set out who gave new worlds to the world and opened the way to the first globalisation. That spirit of setting out to meet the other is what we want to carry on, on our own scale.

That is why Casa Morgado Esporão now speaks ten languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Arabic. They are some of the most widely spoken languages on the planet, and we want anyone who looks for us in any of them to find the house, its history and Évora told in their own language.

It is our way of saying who we are and who we want to be: an old house, open to the world, where you arrive with vagar.