1 Unique Hotel in Covilhã, Portugal
Pousada Serra da Estrela - Portugal's Abandoned Tuberculosis Hospital Is Now a Hotel
High in Portugal's Serra da Estrela, an orange-hued fortress sprawls across the mountainside like something out of a Wes Anderson film. This is no ordinary hotel. For decades, tuberculosis patients took the air on its curative balconies. Then it sat abandoned for 40 years, briefly housing refugees from Portugal's colonial …