Palácio e Parque Biester
Revivalist mansion with carved neo-Gothic staircase, painted ceilings and a terraced exotic garden.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Palácio Biester in Sintra is about the hands that made it: a set painter from Lisbon's opera house, a master woodcarver, a stucco artist, a celebrated ceramist and the engineer of a famous city lift. It follows how one late nineteenth-century banking couple's architect hired a specialist for every trade. Best heard near the carved wooden staircase.
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