Portugal for Travellers and Tourists » Tag Archive » Portugal for Travellers and Tourists https://www.theperfecttourist.com The Perfect Tourist Travel & Tourism eMagazine Sun, 17 Jan 2016 23:04:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Museu Biblioteca Condes de Castro Guimarães https://www.theperfecttourist.com/blog/2013/11/10/museu-biblioteca-condes-de-castro-guimaraes/ https://www.theperfecttourist.com/blog/2013/11/10/museu-biblioteca-condes-de-castro-guimaraes/#comments Sun, 10 Nov 2013 09:54:44 +0000 http://www.theperfecttourist.com/?p=877 Jorge Torlades O’Neill (Lisbon, 15 February 1849 – 11 February 1925), was the titular and official head of the Clan O’Neill , whose family has been in Portugal since the 18th century.Eccentric  early-19th-century summer mansion was completed with castle turrets, an Arabic cloister, the Chapel of St Sebastian, a private beach, and gardens. The clover leaves inside did not guarantee his luck – he went bankrupt and had to sell it in 1910. His successor, Count of Castro Guimarães, lavishly decorated it with 17th-century Indo-Portuguese cabinets, Oriental silk tapestries and 17th-century ‘azulejos’. Countless artistic and cultural treasures can be found in the mansion as the rare 16th-century manuscript depicting pre-earthquake Lisbon. Donated to the town in 1931, today the mansion is the Condes de Castro Guimarães Museum.

 

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