Belmonte

Belmonte is a Portuguese telenovela broadcast and produced by TVI. It was written by Artur Ribeiro and adapted from the Chilean telenovela Hijos del Monte. The telenovela premiered on September 22, 2013 and its last episode aired on September 5, 2014, totaling a number of 259 episodes. It was broadcast in the primetime at 9pm (UTC) and then switched to the 11pm (UTC) slot. Some of the first scenes were recorded in Brazil, but the telenovela was mainly recorded in Portugal, in the region of Alentejo. It is the 5th Portuguese telenovela (the 3rd from TVI) nominated for Best telenovela in the 2014 Emmy International. Plot In the Municipality of Estremoz, in the Alentejo, five children, adopted by the Alentejo patriarch Emílio Belmonte (António Capelo), manage a business group named Belmonte, owner of companies in the business of winemaking, oils, marble exploration, hunting tourism, and financial investments and real estate. The Belmonte family is linked to the ancient history of the region, but Emílio, the last descendant of the family, married Clarisse, a woman who could not have children and, as such, to the survival of the name, the couple had to adopt children. Each of the four older brothers, João (Filipe Duarte), José (João Catarré), Pedro (Diogo Amaral) and Carlos (Marco D'Almeida), is responsible, respectively, for one of the business areas, while Lucas (Lourenço Ortigão), the youngest, was studying photography in London. Business, despite the crisis, is stable and family harmony is evident, continuing the five brothers to live together in the family's homestead.