Quinta do Senhor da Serra - Paço Real de Belas

Very nice space.

I loved the wedding it was beautiful five star service the director who managed the space very expensive of few friends

Quinta do Marquês, in Belas, includes the palace and a vaulted chapel, two decorative fountains, an obelisk erected to D. João VI and the chapel of Senhora da Serra existing in the gardens of the same Quinta. The known history of the Marqueses de Belas Palace dates back to the 14th century, and Gonçalo Anes Roberto, Franco, who in 1318 was the owner of this property. Over the following centuries, the ownership of the farm met many different owners who, of course, introduced changes to the building and gardens, according to the taste and needs of each season. It is, therefore, this complex overlap of architectural languages, which we will try to identify next, isolating the main construction campaigns and relating them with their respective promoters and the motivations that were at their origin. Diogo Lopes Pacheco and D. Pedro were the dominant figures in the 14th century, the first owner of the house in 1334. The implication in the death of Inês de Castro earned him the expropriation of the farm by D. Pedro, who carried out some campaigns here. construction. Returned to the time of D. Fernando, it would end up being confiscated again by D. João I, as a result of Lopes Pacheco's connections to Castela, and to the accusation of treason. In any case, it is due to the last period of this family in front of the property, the vaulted room with warheads crossing (STOOP, 1986, p. 212). This monarch offered the farm to Gonçalo Peres, his adviser, but ended up acquiring it in 1412, and, from that date, he was in possession of the Infantes de Avis. However, it was D. Brites, granddaughter of D. João I and daughter of Constable D. João, who promoted an important set of interventions in the palace, including a chapel. The farm was inherited by D. Rodrigo Afonso de Atouguia, nobleman of the house of the husband of D. Brites, in 1505, inaugurating a new period of important transformations. The most significant areas of the palace, which were the target of multiple construction campaigns, among which we highlight the courtyard closed by a wall with a guard path, protected by a balustrade, which ends, at an angle, in a Renaissance pavilion topped by a dome of buds, with the Atouguia coat of arms; or the entrance door with two columns, Manueline (IDEM; AZEVEDO, 1969, p. 117). The painted bas-relief, alluding to the punishment of Midas, found in the tank, is 17th century, corresponding, quite possibly, to a new intervention in the palace (STOOP, 1986, p. 214). In the reign of D. João V, the counts of Pombeiro, owners of the farm, brought new improvements, dating from 1735 the construction of the via crucis, and from 1745 the chapel of Senhor da Serra. The steps of Christ's passion were a very characteristic manifestation of the Baroque period, and this iconography is repeated in the blue and white tiles that line the interior of the chapel (in an unusual representation in the tiles, but that can be found in the chapel of another farm in the region, Quinta do Bonjardim). These have been attributed to the workshop by Valentim de Almeida, and are contemporaries of the building of the chapel (SIMÕES, 1979, p. 319). The main altarpiece stands out for the representation of the Calvary, in painted terracotta. In the gardens, renovated in 1770, the sculpture of Neptune, attributed to Bernini and which today is in Queluz, gains special importance, as well as the commemorative obelisk of the visit of the regents D. João and D. Carlota Joaquina, in 1795, by Joaquim Barros Laborão, who is part of the same neoclassical spirit of the Seteais arch. In fact, the description of the gardens of 1799, by Caldas de Barbosa, makes it possible to guess the changes in taste at the end of the 18th century, and the preference for more naturalistic environments (CARITA, 1987, p. 236). (Rosário Carvalho)

Very beautiful interiors and exteriors. Excellent very green space, fresh "2 minutes" from Lisbon. Great parking. Great catering. Good welcome. Attention to high heels abroad ?