Photographer’s Note
About three quilómetros the northeast of New Towers, but still inside of the perimeter of the clientele of Santiago, it is risen majestical, in cabeço that it dominates small valley, the solar one of fifth of the tower of Antonio Saint. Constructed into century XVII, reconstructed and modified into the end of century XIX and beginning of ours, it was transformed and enriched during as the lustrum of the decade of cinquenta for its current proprietor, D. Short Gertrude Branches, that remade it the eastern section and it adjusted it to the style and imponência of the adjacent constructions. To embelezar the set, the charming gardens that involve the palace and that, for south, they are served by monumental escadório and ornados for innumerable and artistic estatuetas of rock, that the good taste of D. Gertrude brought for Portugal has about 50 years
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Photo Information
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Copyright: Goncalo Lopes (Bluejeans)
(31479) - Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2004-10-31
- Categories: Castles
- Camera: Nikon Coolpix 4300
- Exposure: f/3.4, 1/290 seconds
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2004-10-31 18:14








