Penina Hotel & Golf Resort – Championship Course

A landmark of Algarve golf since the 1960s, Penina Hotel and Golf Resort occupies a magnificent 360-acre estate in the peaceful Alvor plain, close to Portimão. The jewel of the property is the Sir Henry Cotton Championship Course — the legendary architect's masterpiece, and the first purpose-built golf course in Portugal. Cotton transformed what was once paddy fields into a tree-lined championship layout of extraordinary maturity, now a towering testament to classical course design. A complementary nine-hole Resort course offers a more relaxed alternative on the same grounds. The hotel itself, recently fully renovated across 188 rooms and suites, reflects a graceful fusion of English architecture and Portuguese warmth, with five restaurants, a spa, tennis courts, and a beach club completing one of the Algarve's most self-contained resort experiences. Penina is not merely a golf resort — it is a piece of European golf history.