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Some buildings carry their history quietly.
Ours has stood on Rua de Belomonte since the sixteenth century, and for the past years we have tried to do right by it — keeping its bones, its arches and its light, and letting contemporary comfort settle in without raising its voice.
So it means a great deal to share that B28 Apartments has been featured in Unwaxed Lemons, the new print magazine by The Aficionados, and is now part of their curated collection of independent places to stay.
For us, it’s not just another event. It’s a reflection of what B28 stands for.
Since 2009, The Aficionados have been gathering characterful hotels, design-led guesthouses and the makers behind them into carefully considered edits. It is a collection built on a simple conviction: that the places we stay should be as thoughtful as the journeys that bring us to them.
Travel, design, craft and architecture — woven together, rather than filed apart.
For a house like ours, it is hard to imagine a more natural home.
Unwaxed Lemons is The Aficionados’ first printed magazine, a summer love letter to family-run design hotels across the Mediterranean.
Within it, B28 appears in the Heritage edit: nine houses across Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Croatia, each set in a historic building that is still very much alive.
The idea behind the edit is one we recognise instantly. These are not museums. They are old houses that continue to be lived in — where original details stay in daily use, and where guests arrive into a home rather than a lobby.
Seeing B28 alongside a neoclassical mansion in Syros, a Palma townhouse and a sixteenth-century borgo in Emilia-Romagna is humbling.
You can read the full Heritage edit on The Aficionados’ journal.
From the beginning, restoring B28 was about listening to the building. Led by architect José Bernardo Távora, the rehabilitation kept what mattered: the stone arches, the inner patio, the nineteenth-century spiral staircase and the skylight that pours daylight down through its core.
Inside, the apartments are intentionally quiet — soft, pale tones, natural wood and linen, and Portuguese mid-century furniture — so that the stucco ceilings, carved doors and wrought-iron balconies can speak for themselves.
Even the photographs on our walls tell this story. Taken by Luís Ferreira Alves to document the restoration, they now hang throughout the building: B28, captured in the act of being remade.
Recognition like this is not something we ever set out to chase. But it confirms something we care deeply about: that heritage and contemporary living can share the same address, and that guests increasingly look for places with a story of their own.
Set in Porto’s old Jewish quarter, a few steps from São Bento and the Douro, B28 has always aimed to be a calm base in the heart of the historic centre. A home, rather than just a stay.
Being part of The Aficionados places us within a community of hosts who share that belief, and connects us with travellers who choose where they stay with care.
You can explore our full profile, with photography and the story of the building, on The Aficionados’ website.
Unwaxed Lemons is available through their magazine page.
We are grateful to The Aficionados team for their curiosity and care, and to every guest who has helped make this old house feel like home.
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