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Houses, places and the Portuguese property market, written by us
Paço do Lumiar: a Village of Quintas in the North of Lisbon
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.
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Ribeiro Telles and the Garden of the Quinta, Lumiar
In 1970, while his Gulbenkian garden was taking root, Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles redrew the garden of an eighteenth-century quinta at Paço do Lumiar.
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Before Lino: the Quinta de São Sebastião and its Tiles, Lumiar
Long before Raul Lino arrived in 1920, the Quinta de São Sebastião was a country estate of the age of King João V: royal arms, fountains, tanks and walls of tile.
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Raul Lino Rebuilds a Royal Quinta: the Portuguese House in Lumiar
In 1920 Raul Lino, the architect of the Portuguese house, did not draw from scratch: he rebuilt an eighteenth-century quinta at Paço do Lumiar.
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