Ernesto Korrodi (

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, 31 January 1870 –

Leiria Leiria (; cel-x-proto, ɸlāryo) is a city and municipality in the Central Region of Portugal. It is the 2nd largest city in that same region, with a municipality population of 128,640 (as of 2021) in an area of . It is the seat of its own distr ...

, 3 February 1944), was a

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-born

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who moved to

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aged 19, spending the remainder of his life there. He later adopted Portuguese citizenship, and married a Portuguese woman. He died in 1944.

Main works

He has more than 400 works in all Portugal of which the most important are: * Castle of D. Chica * Hotel Guadiana in the town of

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, the oldest Hotel in the Algarve. * Restoration of

Leiria Castle The Castle of Leiria ( pt, Castelo de Leiria) is a medieval castle in the civil parish of Leiria, Pousos, Barreira e Cortes, municipality of Leiria, district of Leiria. History The castle of Leiria was built by D. Afonso Henriques for the purpo ...

* Church of

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, Leiria (1902)

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* 20th-century Portuguese architects 1870 births 1944 deaths {{Portugal-architect-stub