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Paço de Lanheses, also referred to as Quinta e Paço de Lanheses and Quinta do Paço, is a rural farm with a manor located in the parish of Lanheses, in the Municipality and District of Viana do Castelo, in Portugal.

The property, which was the head of a morgado, has vineyards planted in its fields.

The complex has been classified as a Monument of Public Interest since 2012.

Within a traditional and typical style of the Northern region of Portugal, it constitutes a large manor house, made up of two unequal bodies, with two floors, with a chapel attached to the larger body. It was built at the end of the 16th century and expanded in the 18th century, retaining its style from that time and located on an extensive agricultural property.

It is also nicknamed Paço dos Almadas because it belonged, since the beginning of the 19th century, to the representative of the Almadas (counts of Almada) just as it had been before Solar dos Ricaldes because it saw the birth or ennoblement of the family with that name associated with the surname, ancestors of the former through the female line from that date.

Within its woods and pleasant garden, at the entrance, is the Pelourinho de Lanheses, another National Monument (classified as IIP by Decree no. 12 122, of 11-10-1033), which represented the right to justice that the lords of this Houses were formerly located in this now-disappeared municipality and previously in Vila Nova de Lanheses.

A Herdeira, a TVI soap opera, has this palace as one of its main settings and is, in fiction, the Paço do Souto and Solar dos Condes de Alvarenga belonging to the family constituted by the "countess mother" Maria do Carmo (Lia Gama), the Count Duarte (Pedro Lamares), his second wife Madalena (Rita Pereira) and the young Pipo (Leonardo Marques) and Carlota (Júlia Palha). The farm's caretakers, Marianinha (Julie Sargeant) and Zé Avelino (José Wallenstein) and their daughter, Anita (Carolina Frias), also have a place there. The coachman Vitó Carlos Bagina (Gany Ferreira) also lives in this environment daily, as well as Alexa Torres and Duarte's first wife, Countess Maria Luísa, deceased, seen as a memory of the past, who are both represented by Jessica Athayde.

Classification

By decree, published in the Diário da Republica on December 31, 2012, both the Quinta and the Paço de Lanheses (comprising the manor and the remaining property, which belongs to it, including the gardens, a rural house and the surrounding agricultural fields) were classified as a Monument of Public Interest (MIP), with a special protection zone (ZEP), by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, through the signature, on December 13 of the same year, of the then president of the Office of the Secretary of State for Culture.

It is also today one of the references for accommodation in rural tourism and which combines wine tourism practices. Since 1997, classified as a Housing Tourism house by the General Directorate of Tourism.

Legends and Stories

It is known and is family tradition that D. António Prior do Crato was here in 1580 when he was fleeing from the Castilians and trying to gather allied forces. Just like that of the famous robber Zé do Telhado who borrowed a jewel here from the lady of this house, Countess of Almada, and returned it with another precious stone embedded in it that had been lost long ago.

Architectural elements

Apparently, the construction of the Palace of Lanheses began in the 16th century and was completely remodeled at the beginning of the 18th century.

Its architecture is 18th century except for a door and a window that are 16th century and belong to an older body that was integrated into the rest of the building. The two coat of arms presented there transport us to that last era. In fact, there is information that in 1723 the diocese of Braga authorized the transfer of the old chapel, to enlarge it and make it public. This was positively granted because the new one, which is adjacent to the house, in the same style as the rest of the palace ("palacium"), was blessed in 1757. According to a will, new works can be seen in 1764 in the stable. The intervening owners, holders of this desire to improve the house, were José de Abreu Pereira Brito e Castro and Francisco de Abreu Cirne Pereira de Brito, father and son respectively.

The manor forms a huge L facing a large yard, surrounded by two walls that enclose it. One of them is low, but with a leafy and tight boxwood bush, which raises it along its entire length, and another high, with chamfered battlements and merlons, cut in half by a large gate with an elaborate first stone of arms, facing the outside. On the sides, two pinnacles complete the decoration. On each side of the portal, this wall is torn by barred windows with "romantic benches".

The entrance is through the wing facing North and towards the center of the main building, via an elegant granite staircase, flanked by an elegant handrail and topped by another second coat of arms, flanked by elaborate pinnacles.

This gives access to a beautiful U-shaped balcony, inside, with a gallery of stone columns the same all the way around. Below it and on the two side walls there are four round arches. It is precisely inside one of them, facing west/east, that the aforementioned entrance to the old chapel is found.

On each side, of these stone stairs, water flows from two fountains that are contemporary with the rest of the construction and which are harmoniously framed, but which came from the house that the family owned simultaneously, at that time until around 1950, in the capital of this district (Viana of the Castle). This property had another one operating to serve it and to provide free water to travelers and the general population, which comes from a family mine. Traces of it can still be seen, in what is now called the "carreira" or "tree avenue" leading to our gate and which was previously part of the old Ponte de Lima/Viana do Castelo road, and on the other with the same purpose of generosity to public service, as it was later transferred to the new national road against the outer wall of the entire farm.

At the eastern end of the same side and outside the aforementioned crenellated wall, leaning against the house, is the chapel, the more significant and important than the first, and which is invocation of Santo Cristo and São Sebastião.

The façade of the aforementioned chapel bears two cartouches, with the one on the left inscribed with: "LOU/VADO. SE/IA. O. SANTI/SSIMO. SA/CRAMEN/TO" and the one on the right with: "O. MA/RIA. CONC/EBIDA. SEM / PECCADO R/0GAI POR / NOS".

Genealogical data for your story

The "Almadas", its owners or proprietors, descend directly from the first founders of this manor - João Martins Ricalde (or da Rica) and his wife D. Ana da Rocha, daughter of the "chief" of the "Rochas de Meixedo" commanders of the Monastery of S. Salvador da Torre, owner of Couto de Lanheses.

As an important note, we must mention that, in this manor, until the entry of the Almada family into the Abreu Pereira Ricalde or Martins family, there had been very good management relations for the Portuguese crown. To understand this, it would be enough to say that during four generations, four judges were born here who supported the management of the front of the Kingdom of Portugal. They were the doctors: Gonçalo Mendes de Brito, Sebastião Pereira de Castro, José Ricalde Pereira de Castro and Francisco de Abreu Pereira de Meneses.

This, this meeting of the two families, took place on March 30, 1818 when the only daughter and heir of this representation, D. Maria Francisca de Abreu Pereira Cirne Peixoto (lady of Paço de Lanheses), married the morgado D. Antão José Maria de Almada (count of Almada e Abranches), only daughter of Sebastião de Abreu Pereira Cirne Peixoto, 1st lord of Vila Nova de Lanheses and its chief captain of the ordinances of this same locality.

Thus it was possible to unite the lordship of Lanheses and commanderies of Vila Franca (Viana do Castelo) and Ferreira (Zêzere), which she brought as a dowry, with those of Pombalinho (Soure) and Lagares d´El-Rei (Lisbon) which she his family had been bringing for a long time.

Years later, all these ties were extinguished and separated, by liberal law, in 1835, except obviously the ownership of their farms and houses, which remained in the possession of the family, as is the case with this one discussed here.

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GPS 41.73482294433191, -8.680709278813541

Paço de Lanheses, also referred to as Quinta e Paço de Lanheses and Quinta do Paço, is a rural farm with a manor located in the parish of Lanheses, in the Municipality and District of Viana do Castelo, in Portugal.

The property, which was the head of a morgado, has vineyards planted in its fields.

The complex has been classified as a Monument of Public Interest since 2012.

Within a traditional and typical style of the Northern region of Portugal, it constitutes a large manor house, made up of two unequal bodies, with two floors, with a chapel attached to the larger body. It was built at the end of the 16th century and expanded in the 18th century, retaining its style from that time and located on an extensive agricultural property.

It is also nicknamed Paço dos Almadas because it belonged, since the beginning of the 19th century, to the representative of the Almadas (counts of Almada) just as it had been before Solar dos Ricaldes because it saw the birth or ennoblement of the family with that name associated with the surname, ancestors of the former through the female line from that date.

Within its woods and pleasant garden, at the entrance, is the Pelourinho de Lanheses, another National Monument (classified as IIP by Decree no. 12 122, of 11-10-1033), which represented the right to justice that the lords of this Houses were formerly located in this now-disappeared municipality and previously in Vila Nova de Lanheses.

A Herdeira, a TVI soap opera, has this palace as one of its main settings and is, in fiction, the Paço do Souto and Solar dos Condes de Alvarenga belonging to the family constituted by the "countess mother" Maria do Carmo (Lia Gama), the Count Duarte (Pedro Lamares), his second wife Madalena (Rita Pereira) and the young Pipo (Leonardo Marques) and Carlota (Júlia Palha). The farm's caretakers, Marianinha (Julie Sargeant) and Zé Avelino (José Wallenstein) and their daughter, Anita (Carolina Frias), also have a place there. The coachman Vitó Carlos Bagina (Gany Ferreira) also lives in this environment daily, as well as Alexa Torres and Duarte's first wife, Countess Maria Luísa, deceased, seen as a memory of the past, who are both represented by Jessica Athayde.

Classification

By decree, published in the Diário da Republica on December 31, 2012, both the Quinta and the Paço de Lanheses (comprising the manor and the remaining property, which belongs to it, including the gardens, a rural house and the surrounding agricultural fields) were classified as a Monument of Public Interest (MIP), with a special protection zone (ZEP), by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, through the signature, on December 13 of the same year, of the then president of the Office of the Secretary of State for Culture.

It is also today one of the references for accommodation in rural tourism and which combines wine tourism practices. Since 1997, classified as a Housing Tourism house by the General Directorate of Tourism.

Legends and Stories

It is known and is family tradition that D. António Prior do Crato was here in 1580 when he was fleeing from the Castilians and trying to gather allied forces. Just like that of the famous robber Zé do Telhado who borrowed a jewel here from the lady of this house, Countess of Almada, and returned it with another precious stone embedded in it that had been lost long ago.

Architectural elements

Apparently, the construction of the Palace of Lanheses began in the 16th century and was completely remodeled at the beginning of the 18th century.

Its architecture is 18th century except for a door and a window that are 16th century and belong to an older body that was integrated into the rest of the building. The two coat of arms presented there transport us to that last era. In fact, there is information that in 1723 the diocese of Braga authorized the transfer of the old chapel, to enlarge it and make it public. This was positively granted because the new one, which is adjacent to the house, in the same style as the rest of the palace ("palacium"), was blessed in 1757. According to a will, new works can be seen in 1764 in the stable. The intervening owners, holders of this desire to improve the house, were José de Abreu Pereira Brito e Castro and Francisco de Abreu Cirne Pereira de Brito, father and son respectively.

The manor forms a huge L facing a large yard, surrounded by two walls that enclose it. One of them is low, but with a leafy and tight boxwood bush, which raises it along its entire length, and another high, with chamfered battlements and merlons, cut in half by a large gate with an elaborate first stone of arms, facing the outside. On the sides, two pinnacles complete the decoration. On each side of the portal, this wall is torn by barred windows with "romantic benches".

The entrance is through the wing facing North and towards the center of the main building, via an elegant granite staircase, flanked by an elegant handrail and topped by another second coat of arms, flanked by elaborate pinnacles.

This gives access to a beautiful U-shaped balcony, inside, with a gallery of stone columns the same all the way around. Below it and on the two side walls there are four round arches. It is precisely inside one of them, facing west/east, that the aforementioned entrance to the old chapel is found.

On each side, of these stone stairs, water flows from two fountains that are contemporary with the rest of the construction and which are harmoniously framed, but which came from the house that the family owned simultaneously, at that time until around 1950, in the capital of this district (Viana of the Castle). This property had another one operating to serve it and to provide free water to travelers and the general population, which comes from a family mine. Traces of it can still be seen, in what is now called the "carreira" or "tree avenue" leading to our gate and which was previously part of the old Ponte de Lima/Viana do Castelo road, and on the other with the same purpose of generosity to public service, as it was later transferred to the new national road against the outer wall of the entire farm.

At the eastern end of the same side and outside the aforementioned crenellated wall, leaning against the house, is the chapel, the more significant and important than the first, and which is invocation of Santo Cristo and São Sebastião.

The façade of the aforementioned chapel bears two cartouches, with the one on the left inscribed with: "LOU/VADO. SE/IA. O. SANTI/SSIMO. SA/CRAMEN/TO" and the one on the right with: "O. MA/RIA. CONC/EBIDA. SEM / PECCADO R/0GAI POR / NOS".

Genealogical data for your story

The "Almadas", its owners or proprietors, descend directly from the first founders of this manor - João Martins Ricalde (or da Rica) and his wife D. Ana da Rocha, daughter of the "chief" of the "Rochas de Meixedo" commanders of the Monastery of S. Salvador da Torre, owner of Couto de Lanheses.

As an important note, we must mention that, in this manor, until the entry of the Almada family into the Abreu Pereira Ricalde or Martins family, there had been very good management relations for the Portuguese crown. To understand this, it would be enough to say that during four generations, four judges were born here who supported the management of the front of the Kingdom of Portugal. They were the doctors: Gonçalo Mendes de Brito, Sebastião Pereira de Castro, José Ricalde Pereira de Castro and Francisco de Abreu Pereira de Meneses.

This, this meeting of the two families, took place on March 30, 1818 when the only daughter and heir of this representation, D. Maria Francisca de Abreu Pereira Cirne Peixoto (lady of Paço de Lanheses), married the morgado D. Antão José Maria de Almada (count of Almada e Abranches), only daughter of Sebastião de Abreu Pereira Cirne Peixoto, 1st lord of Vila Nova de Lanheses and its chief captain of the ordinances of this same locality.

Thus it was possible to unite the lordship of Lanheses and commanderies of Vila Franca (Viana do Castelo) and Ferreira (Zêzere), which she brought as a dowry, with those of Pombalinho (Soure) and Lagares d´El-Rei (Lisbon) which she his family had been bringing for a long time.

Years later, all these ties were extinguished and separated, by liberal law, in 1835, except obviously the ownership of their farms and houses, which remained in the possession of the family, as is the case with this one discussed here.

Full list of Geochaching below:

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