Description
Upon entering the palace gardens, we begin to breathe the timeless atmosphere of the current of romanticism, and you can almost hear a waltz and the laughter left by time, large halls with frescoes painted on the ceiling, gilded carvings, princely suites, on the right wing of the palace, 3 T3 apartments have been built with large rooms, with 3 suites, terraces that offer views over the houses in the center of the village. This Romantic Palace, Quinta do Saldanha, was built in 1830 by the Marquis of Saldanha, maternal grandson of the Marquis of Pombal, the prime minister of King D. José. The Quinta, which is located on the terrace of the mountains, below the Castelo dos Mouros, offers a privileged view of the National Palace of Sintra. The Casa Italiana, designed by an Italian architect of great prestige at the time, designed a semi-circular building where Italian workers and artists were employed to paint both the exterior and interior frescoes. In 1840 the Quinta was sold to an English family. The Italian House returned to the possession of the descendants of the Duke of Saldanha's mother, who was the daughter of the first Marquis of Pombal by her second marriage to D. Ernestina Wolfange The Italian House has a coat of arms with her daughter's painted arms on the ceiling of its entrance porch - the Countess of Rio Maior - D. Amália de Carvalho Daun and Lorena de Saldanha Oliveira e Sousa. The Coat of Arms has an Eagle with a key in its mouth that comes from the Arms of the Daun and symbolizes the story that the first Earl of Daun was arrested by a rival and imprisoned in a Bohemian Castle Tower. At the beginning of the 19th century, Casa Italiana was once again inhabited by the Saldanha family, who donated the highest house as well as part of the Quinta to the Patriarchate of Lisbon and sold Casa Italiana to an English family. In December 1987, Casa Italiana was sold again, undergoing restoration works both on the outside and inside for 2 years. With countless possibilities for this property, indescribable by words. Sintra is the true and only capital of Romanticism. - Sintra is the only place in the country where History became a garden. Sintra is not just any town, Sintra is a World Heritage Site, it is a Cultural Landscape (classified by UNESCO) Sintra is one.
