Quinta De Santo António
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Quinta De Santo António
The Quinta de Santo António () is a well-preserved Pombaline style, Pombaline ''quinta (estate), quinta'' in the ''Freguesia (Portugal), freguesia'' of Carcavelos e Parede, in the Concelho, municipality of Cascais, on the Portuguese Riviera. It is the seat of St. Julian's School. History The oldest reference to the site is associated with municipality of Cascais, before 1364, then known as ''Quinta da Ordem'' (the ''Estate of the Order''), pertaining to the ''Hospital e Gafaria do Santo Espírito de Sintra'' (''Sintra Hospital and Leper Colony of Santo Espírito''). Following the 16th century, the annual pension was of the estate was paid to the Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Sintra, then Cascais. It was through contributions from its diverse renters that the estate was expanded: by the end of the 16th and early 17th century, the estate of Santo António included 62 hectares. In the 1760s, a few terrains were acquired to build a summer residence for José Francisco da Cruz (then tr ...
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