Two ruined houses in a village people have walked through for centuries. Granja is crossed by the Carmelite Route towards Fátima, which here shares its path with the Portuguese Way of St. James — and it is exactly that slow, ancient passage the project set out to serve: two places to sleep, eat and set off again.
A house for pilgrims asks for little, and asks well: hot water, silence, somewhere to set down a rucksack and a window worth opening in the morning. Rehabilitating to receive those who arrive on foot means resisting the superfluous — giving both houses exactly what they need to last another century.
