Casa das Estampas

Casa das Estampas

Still on the main plateau of the sanctuary, in addition to the hotels that emerged throughout the 19th century and the artificial cave, we contemplated some improvements undertaken at the consulate of Lieutenant-Colonel Albano Justino Lopes Gonçalves, Judge of the table of Confraria. For its initiative, the casino, telegraph station, bandstand and house of prints, was created by the Lisbon architect Raul Lino, one of the most important names in that time.

Other refresh motifs the landscape and open the heart to the power of nature and art, such as the House of Prints building, near the Adro and Temple, already mentioned in the books of the confraternity in 1897, where the Museum, the Office of the National Republican Guard and the Library (constituted by the bookstore of the benefactor Gaspar Leite de Azevedo).

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The Bom Jesus do Monte, an unavoidable reference.