Quinta do Relógio
Striped Moorish Revival mansion with horseshoe arches, Arabic inscriptions and romantic gardens.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Quinta do Relógio in Sintra follows the man who bought it in eighteen fifty-three: Manuel Pinto da Fonseca, a Portuguese merchant newly expelled from Brazil. It moves between Rio de Janeiro's contraband trade and a Sintra hillside, and asks what a Moorish fantasy façade was really built on. Best heard from the road, facing the three horseshoe arches of the porch.
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