Parque de São Roque
Terraced romantic garden with a boxwood labyrinth, grotto lake and an old manor house.
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This guide to the Parque de São Roque in Porto traces the boxwood labyrinth and manor house back to the Calém family, whose name still marks Porto's Port wine trade, and to the grand house behind the maze, dated seventeen ninety-two. You'll hear how the city bought the estate piece by piece in the late nineteen seventies and opened the grounds to the public in 1979, while the house itself went on to a much quieter, uncertain fate. Along the way it pauses on the painted, gilded ceilings built for guests who once arrived by carriage.
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