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In 1834 the canons left Vila Boa do Bispo and the monastery became a quinta. Below it, an old granite quarry on the Tâmega has become a lake.

A royal estate of 1312, a botanist's park, a house of tiles and an Irish saint: Paço do Lumiar is a village of quintas inside Lisbon.

In 1970, while his Gulbenkian garden was taking root, Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles redrew the garden of an eighteenth-century quinta at Paço do Lumiar.