The Serralves House can be found in the Serralves Park, in the Lordelo do Oro parish, in the Portuguese city and district of Porto.

It is regarded as a singular example of Art Deco architecture in the nation and is located at the former country home of the Count of Vizela, in the rural area of the Port.
The house was ordered by Carlos Alberto Cabral, the 2nd Count of Vizela, a textile aristocrat who had inherited the estate from his father in 1923.

The Portuguese architect José Marques da Silva carried out the project's design, which was created by French architect Charles Siclis. Jacques Gréber created the gardens in 1932. Marques de Silva gradually altered the ideas for the house and gardens, and the work was eventually finished in 1940.

The Count of Vizela ultimately made Serralves his home in 1944, but around ten years later Delfim Ferreira, Count of Riba de Ave, purchased the land.

It served as the focal point of a project in the 1980s that ended in the construction of one of the Iberian Peninsula's most significant cultural and artistic poles, connecting the house, the gardens, the villa, and a Museum of Contemporary Art.

This occurred as a result of the 1987 purchase of the site by the Ministry of Culture and the 1989 establishment of the Serralves Foundation, which added a museum to the main house. The Port's Municipal Master Plan designated it as a zone of landscape, urban, and architectural protection the next year.

The previous garden's orchard and fruit trees were later covered by a new Serralves museum building constructed by architect Siza Vieira, necessitating a redesign of this area of the property's exterior spaces by landscape architect Joo Gomes de Silva. At a lower portion of the site, an aromatic plant garden was created to make up for the loss of the original vegetable garden.

The Serralves Foundation, which also owns the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, presently holds ownership of it.

Due to its architectural interest, the entire complex was designated as an immovable site of public interest in 1996.