The Jardim do Paço Episcopal (or of S. João Baptista), located in the Parish of Castelo Branco, was built by the Bishop of Guarda, D. João de Mendonça, around 1720.
In the garden are the statues of St. John the Baptist and that of Mary Magdalene, dating from 1725.
Adjacent to the Palace is the staircase of the 33-step apostles.
In formal terms, the garden is divided into four different sites, but connected by several points of articulation: the entrance, the floor of the boxwood, the flooded garden and the upper plane.
The current entrance of the garden is practiced by Rua Bartolomeu da Costa, since 1936, the year in which it was designed by the engineer Manuel Tavares dos Santos. The mural panels covered with tiles served as a repository of memories but were never fully filled: ancient views of the city and the portraits of the two bishops who drove the building of the garden were the motives chosen. The portal is of the century. XVIII and came from the garden gardens.
Jardim do Buxo has a rectangular plan and constitutes the main landing.
It is divided into 24 plots, bordered by hedges and boxwood sidewalks, and has 5 lakes with fountains implanted. In addition, it boasts a high number of statues.
The Alagado Garden, next to the previous one, is located in the South band. It is a set of trapezoidal beds that, illusorily, seems to emerge from the middle of the lake, provoking a surprising visual effect.
Between these two landscaped spaces is the Lake of the Crowns, with three pieces of fountains. The lake rests on a balcony with an elevation above the garden and in it parades the fourth dynasty of the Portuguese monarchs until D. José I, as well as D. Sebastião.
In the garden are the statues of St. John the Baptist and that of Mary Magdalene, dating from 1725.
Adjacent to the Palace is the staircase of the 33-step apostles.
In formal terms, the garden is divided into four different sites, but connected by several points of articulation: the entrance, the floor of the boxwood, the flooded garden and the upper plane.
The current entrance of the garden is practiced by Rua Bartolomeu da Costa, since 1936, the year in which it was designed by the engineer Manuel Tavares dos Santos. The mural panels covered with tiles served as a repository of memories but were never fully filled: ancient views of the city and the portraits of the two bishops who drove the building of the garden were the motives chosen. The portal is of the century. XVIII and came from the garden gardens.
Jardim do Buxo has a rectangular plan and constitutes the main landing.
It is divided into 24 plots, bordered by hedges and boxwood sidewalks, and has 5 lakes with fountains implanted. In addition, it boasts a high number of statues.
The Alagado Garden, next to the previous one, is located in the South band. It is a set of trapezoidal beds that, illusorily, seems to emerge from the middle of the lake, provoking a surprising visual effect.
Between these two landscaped spaces is the Lake of the Crowns, with three pieces of fountains. The lake rests on a balcony with an elevation above the garden and in it parades the fourth dynasty of the Portuguese monarchs until D. José I, as well as D. Sebastião.
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