The estate was built between 1870 and 1875 by the grandparents of Luiza Junqueira Reis, and for more than a century it made wine: thirty-five hectares running from the N125 down to the shore of the lagoon. Luiza stopped in about 2000. The land went to avocados, the house became a holiday let, and her husband, a collector, turned part of it into a museum of old toys, maps and farm tools.
Monique Snoeijen and Martijn Kleijwegt bought it in 2021, with the furniture, the tools and the family photographs still inside. Frederico and Marta Valsassina put five houses into the old farm buildings without moving very much: red shutters, Santa Catarina terracotta underfoot, two swimming pools in the farm's old water tanks. In 2024 the vines went back in. Under the fields lies Balsa, a Roman town that has never been fully dug up.
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