Museu Condes de Castro Guimarães
Neo-Gothic seaside mansion over a cove, holding a rare illuminated view of old Lisbon.
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This guide to the Museu Condes de Castro Guimarães in Cascais is about a single painted page and the royal illuminator António de Holanda, who made it in the early fifteen hundreds for a chronicle of Portugal's first king. It also follows the house itself, from an Irish-descended financier's seaside tower to a count who collected rare manuscripts and a neo-Gothic organ. Best heard in the tiled cloister before you climb the spiral stairs.
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