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Sintra Quinta da Regaleira1 (the palace)

Sintra, a picturesque Portuguese town set amidst the pine-covered hills of the Serra de Sintra is known for its many 19th-century Romantic architectural monuments. Quinta da Regaleira, an estate located near Sintra-Vila is classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO within the Cultural Landscape of Sintra

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Sintra Quinta da Regaleira1 (the palace)

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  1. SINTRA Quinta da Regaleira 1

  2. © catbirdinoman Sintra, a picturesque Portuguese town set amidst the pine-covered hills of the Serra de Sintra is known for its many 19th-century Romantic architectural monuments. Quinta da Regaleira, an estate located near Sintra-Vila is classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO within the “Cultural Landscape of Sintra”  

  3. Rua Barbosa do Bocage

  4. Rua Barbosa do Bocage

  5. Quinta da Regaleira has a Romantic palace and chapel, and a luxurious park featuring lakes, grottoes, wells, benches, towers, fountains and sculptures. The palace is known as “Palace of Monteiro the Millionaire”, from the nickname of its first owner, António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro

  6. Ticket Office

  7. Ticket Office

  8. The land that is now Quinta da Regaleira had many owners over the years. It belonged to the Viscountess of Regaleira, a family of wealthy merchants from Porto, when it was sold in 1892 to Carvalho Monteiro. Monteiro was eager to build a bewildering place where he could collect symbols that reflected his interests and ideologies. With the assistance of the Italian architect Luigi Manini, he recreated the 4-hectare estate

  9. Bench between the chapel and the palace

  10. Bench between the chapel and the palace

  11. Carvalho Monteiro, profoundly influenced by the 'revivalist' Neo-Manueline  architecture of the times, took inspiration for the construction of the palace and its chapel from the structural and decorative eclecticism of the Pena Palace and the Neo-Manueline style of the Palacio do Buçaco designed by the scenographer-architect Luigi Manini  (1848-1936)

  12. Monteiro hired Manini  to design and build Regaleira. The project was completed in 1911

  13. In addition to other new features, he added enigmatic buildings that allegedly held symbols related to alchemy, Masonry, the Knights Templar, and the Rosicrucians. The architecture Manini designed evoked Roman, Gothic, Renaissance, and Manueline styles. The construction of the current estate commenced in 1904 and much of it was completed by 1910

  14. The structure's façade is characterized by exuberantly Gothic pinnacles, gargoyles, capitals, and an impressive octagonal tower

  15. The celebrated capitalist Carvalho Monteiro was of Portuguese descent but was born in Rio de Janeiro, at a time when Brazil was governed by an Emperor. He graduated in law from the University of Coimbra, was a distinguished bibliophile, collector and philanthropist.  With his scientific and cultured mind, he determined the mysterious iconographical program for Regaleira, his residence in Sintra.

  16. Acquired by the Sintra Town Council in 1997, it finally opened to the public in June 1998

  17. The Quinta da Regaleira sunroom

  18. The Quinta da Regaleira was the last commission in Portugal of Italian architect Luigi Manini.  He devoted 14 years of his life to the palace, until he returned to Italy in 1912

  19. Text: Internet Pictures: Sanda Foişoreanu Gabriela Cristescu Internet All  copyrights  belong to their  respective owners Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu https://www.slideshare.net/michaelasanda https://ma-planete.com/michaelasanda 2017 Sound:Paco Bandeira - A ternura dos 40; A minha Quinta Sinfonia

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