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Saturday, 17 October 2015

Quinta da Regaleira - Inside the House

There is a sequence of mosaic animals in the front entrance, the most striking of which was this duck. Carvalho Monteiro was an admirer of symbols, masons, alchemy and the Rosicrucians as well as the Templar Knights.





 The hall of the kings and queens of Portugal was his billiard room. It has small portraits of them along the top.



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