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Modern luxury villa with infinity pool — illustration of the high-end hospitality and branded-residences inventory at the centre of the Fasano Cascais rebuild on the Quinta da Marinha estate.

Fortitude and BTG Pactual Pour €200 Million+ Into a Fasano-Branded Rebuild of The Oitavos in Cascais — 90 Rooms, 40 Branded Residences and a Q4 2028 Opening on the Champalimaud-Era Quinta da Marinha Estate

Fortitude Capital and BTG Pactual have wrapped JHSF's Fasano brand around the former The Oitavos in Cascais — a €200 million-plus rebuild on the Champalimaud-built Quinta da Marinha estate, framed as 90 hotel rooms and 40 branded residences with a Q4 2028 opening.
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Rocks, sand and clear Atlantic water on a calm Portuguese coastline.

Cascais Câmara Funds EO4RO, a 12-Month Satellite-and-AI Pilot With GMV and Plymouth Marine Laboratory to Track the Pacific Brown Alga Rugulopteryx Okamurae Across the Atlantic Litoral

Cascais Câmara funds the 12-month EO4RO satellite-and-AI pilot with GMV and Plymouth Marine Laboratory to forecast Rugulopteryx okamurae blooms 48-72 hours in advance — the first municipal-led Earth-observation programme aimed at the invasive Pacific brown alga to launch outside the Algarve.
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