Villa Sassetti
Lombard-style summer villa with a round granite tower and staged gardens on the path up to the castle.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Villa Sassetti in Sintra follows Luigi Manini, the Italian set designer of Lisbon's opera house, and his friend Victor Carlos Sassetti, a Sintra-born hotelier, as they set out in the eighteen-nineties to build a summer house on a steep hillside. It asks what a man trained in canvas and paint does when handed real stone. Oil millionaire Calouste Gulbenkian also passes through. Best heard on the path, looking up at the round tower.
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