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Showing posts with label Palaces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Palaces. Show all posts

Thursday, July 11, 2019

Visit the Palacete de Lousa (Castelo Branco)


Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Visit the Palace of St. Peter - Alcains

The Palacete de São Pedro, located in the Parish of Alcains, is a beautiful country house porch with an annexed chapel, built on one end of a farm that came to be dismembered and confined to a large part of its initial area for the passage of the line Beira Baixa train (1891), which divided it into two halves, one of which its owners came to build the first major industrial project of Alcains: the "São Pedro Factory" (1925), intended for the cereal milling and production industry of food pastes.

Friday, August 19, 2011

Visit the Museum of Flaviense Region - Santa Maria Maggiore (Chaves)

The Museum of Flaviense Region, located in the Parish of St. Mary Major (Keys), is part of a monumental complex of the most emblematic that make up the historic city of Chaves - the Palace of the Duke of Braganza. This museum shows how the permanent exhibition: Metallurgy pre-Roman statues Bronze age, etc.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Visit the Palace of Bacalhôa - São Simão (Setúbal)

Bacalhôa The Palace, located in the Parish of St. Simon (Setúbal) is a construction of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it belonged to the family of Afonso de Albuquerque, Viceroy of India. Form, with its gardens, one of the most important sets of civil architecture of the time. Highlight important repository for the tile.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Visit the palace of Seteais - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

The Seteais Palace, located in the Parish of Saint Martin (Sintra), was built in the eighteenth century to the Dutch consul, Daniel Gildemeester, a portion of land ceded by the Marquis of Pombal. Framed in the middle of a rugged terrain, where one can see the sea and the top of Serra de Sintra.
Presents neoclassical architecture, highlighting the entry, with triangular gables, sash windows and a ladder of two arms that develops inwards towards the secondary façade. You can also see the adaptation of the palace to the irregularity of the terrain.
Altogether, there are two sets of composite plant - the left wing, with plant in U, which develops around the patio, and the right wing with rectangular shape. The main facades are symmetrical, the two records. The halls of the left wing side moldings are painted with flowers and wreaths, highlighting the room Pillement with figurative scenes written by Jean Baptiste Pillement, and the Hall of the Convention, with mythological allusions sea.
From salienetar yet for wide staircase, two arms and three sections, giving access to lower floor. This is the Palace described as abandoned on the famous work of Eça de Queiroz "The Mayas ".

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Visit the Serra de Sintra

The Serra de Sintra belongs to the same mountain range of Serra da Estrela, which ends in Cabo da Roca, marking the western limit of Europe. Is about 10 kilometers from east to west and approx 5 km wide with its highest peak at an altitude of 529 meters. It has a rich fauna, with her ​​example, fox, genets, the mole salamander, the peregrine falcon, the viper and various species of lizards. Its climate is mild with plenty of oceanic influences, and this gives it a higher rainfall compared to the rest of the Greater Lisbon area. It also follows a unique vegetation. About nine hundred species of plants are indigenous and 10% are endemic. Some of them are oak, cork oak and stone pine. Paa is an ideal place for climbing and mountaineering, since the slopes are mostly oriented to the west, which lengthens the light on summer afternoons in the Sintra hills is that we can find the Moorish Castle, the Pena Palace, the Capuchin monastery, the Palace of Monserrate.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Visit the Palace of Golden Valley - Capinha

The Palace of Golden Valley, located in the Town of Capinha, has acquired its name from the golden hues of the leaves in Autumn.
This palace was formerly known as Solar dos Condes Penha Garcia.
Unfortunately, this property is abandoned and in a state of degradation.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Visit the Palace of the riding arena - Alpedrinha

The building of the Riding School, owned by the Municipality of Fundão, and located in the Town of Alpedrinha, is unfortunately in ruins. It consists of two parts: the Orient, older, and the west, which was later built at the end of the century. Eighteenth-century principles. XIX.

The palace served as residence for the Jesuits.

The main facade of the palace, the center has the coat of Correia da Silva, and faces the west and opens onto a square courtyard, called a riding school and has about 18 m. In every corner of the wall that delimits the courtyard there is an obelisk of four meters and the entrance gate there was a monumental, all worked. On the south side of the ring there is a very high wall overlooking the Royal Fountain and this wall on the side of the riding arena, there are four seats with side railings, which you can enjoy a magnificent panorama.