Versão portuguesa aqui.

GPS 38.70447889136322, -9.409955461453904

Monte Estoril was like a fashionable seaside resort. From the time the royal family chose Cascais as a vacation spot and Kings D. Luís and D. Carlos settled in the Palácio da Cidadela to enjoy the months of September and October, the court and many aristocratic families accompanied them. It was an in place.

It was worth seeing and being seen. Exotic Chalets were built, inspired by French, Swiss and English romantic and revivalist designs. Queen D. Maria Pia also acquired her mansion here.

It was precisely in the winding streets of Monte Estoril, more especially in its highest place -Monte Palmela-, that a great construction boom was witnessed, which had its beginnings in 1889 with the creation of the Companhia do Monte Estoril and the his ambition to turn that place into a luxury seaside resort, comparable to those seen at the time in the south of France" that, at the risk of architect Rafael Duarte de Melo, in the first decade of the 1900s, numerous summer houses were built, this time for the Lisbon city bourgeoisie, which intended to emulate the aristocracy.

His projects demonstrate homogeneity through the constant use of the art of wrought iron, tiles and, in general, the characteristics of the prevailing taste at the time in question, neo-Romanesque. The tile strips with which he adorned the facades of the houses he designed, gave the place "a new taste for elaborate decoration, which took advantage of the use of Art Nouveau tiles", in a perfect symbiosis with the other materials used in the building and the small gardens, well organized, following the French model.

Most of the houses designed by architect Rafael Duarte de Melo were built at the request of Manuel Ferreira dos Santos, a well-to-do "Brazilian", who wanted to invest in the promising area of ​​Monte Estoril. Rafael Duarte de Melo's works are easy to identify "by the crowning of the central body, by the porched entrance, by the columns with their graceful capitals, the balcony railings, gates and walls with undulating wrought iron work, by the use of worked stone framing the windows" and still exist today, as is the case with Vila Laura.

The Vila Laura project, located on Avenida Sanfré, where it occupies a predominant place, due to its color and elegance. The building, designed by Rafael Duarte de Melo, was commissioned by Eduardo Esteves de Freitas. The magazine "A Architectura Portuguesa" in 1911, highlighted its location as one of the most pleasant places in the seaside resort of Estoril.

Once again, the entire set shows the characteristics common to its author's design: "exterior surface covered inferiorly with a cyclopean-type device, the remainder being painted plaster, where decorative tile friezes with vegetal and figurative themes are displayed; the typical entrance main porch, which protects a staircase leading to the door; the use of small columns with capitals with volutes and large windows with wrought iron guards".

The tile bands, with typically Art Nouveau designs, stand out in the architectural ensemble for their pictorial and technical quality. They are by Joaquim Luís Cardoso, a tile painter at the Fábrica do Desterro, considered, in his time, one of the "twelve most outstanding painters, who worked on tiles at the beginning of the 20th century".

Full list of Geochaching below:

https://mirror.xyz/madeinpt.eth/I5tjF3sn6ugnUw3nBnKOpOUr2DEh_g6cTN-0hivKCgc

Versão portuguesa aqui.

GPS 38.70447889136322, -9.409955461453904

Monte Estoril was like a fashionable seaside resort. From the time the royal family chose Cascais as a vacation spot and Kings D. Luís and D. Carlos settled in the Palácio da Cidadela to enjoy the months of September and October, the court and many aristocratic families accompanied them. It was an in place.

It was worth seeing and being seen. Exotic Chalets were built, inspired by French, Swiss and English romantic and revivalist designs. Queen D. Maria Pia also acquired her mansion here.

It was precisely in the winding streets of Monte Estoril, more especially in its highest place -Monte Palmela-, that a great construction boom was witnessed, which had its beginnings in 1889 with the creation of the Companhia do Monte Estoril and the his ambition to turn that place into a luxury seaside resort, comparable to those seen at the time in the south of France" that, at the risk of architect Rafael Duarte de Melo, in the first decade of the 1900s, numerous summer houses were built, this time for the Lisbon city bourgeoisie, which intended to emulate the aristocracy.

His projects demonstrate homogeneity through the constant use of the art of wrought iron, tiles and, in general, the characteristics of the prevailing taste at the time in question, neo-Romanesque. The tile strips with which he adorned the facades of the houses he designed, gave the place "a new taste for elaborate decoration, which took advantage of the use of Art Nouveau tiles", in a perfect symbiosis with the other materials used in the building and the small gardens, well organized, following the French model.

Most of the houses designed by architect Rafael Duarte de Melo were built at the request of Manuel Ferreira dos Santos, a well-to-do "Brazilian", who wanted to invest in the promising area of ​​Monte Estoril. Rafael Duarte de Melo's works are easy to identify "by the crowning of the central body, by the porched entrance, by the columns with their graceful capitals, the balcony railings, gates and walls with undulating wrought iron work, by the use of worked stone framing the windows" and still exist today, as is the case with Vila Laura.

The Vila Laura project, located on Avenida Sanfré, where it occupies a predominant place, due to its color and elegance. The building, designed by Rafael Duarte de Melo, was commissioned by Eduardo Esteves de Freitas. The magazine "A Architectura Portuguesa" in 1911, highlighted its location as one of the most pleasant places in the seaside resort of Estoril.

Once again, the entire set shows the characteristics common to its author's design: "exterior surface covered inferiorly with a cyclopean-type device, the remainder being painted plaster, where decorative tile friezes with vegetal and figurative themes are displayed; the typical entrance main porch, which protects a staircase leading to the door; the use of small columns with capitals with volutes and large windows with wrought iron guards".

The tile bands, with typically Art Nouveau designs, stand out in the architectural ensemble for their pictorial and technical quality. They are by Joaquim Luís Cardoso, a tile painter at the Fábrica do Desterro, considered, in his time, one of the "twelve most outstanding painters, who worked on tiles at the beginning of the 20th century".

Full list of Geochaching below:

https://mirror.xyz/madeinpt.eth/I5tjF3sn6ugnUw3nBnKOpOUr2DEh_g6cTN-0hivKCgc