All tagged Manueline Architecture
Portugal’s fancy-edged homemade piecrust look to Gothic architecture is the style that cinnamon and clove spice built.
Spices sacked by the ship load in the ocean-bound Age of Discovery brought wealth and the exotic Near and Far East influence into Portugal and created its most ornamented, iconic historic buildings. Read more...
With two Great Danes standing rib cage height next to Mark and me, we assembled on the grass terrace. Our hostess, Joana, pointed to each of the three visible castles on the Serra de Sintra sloping away and up above her guest house in the valley. We had reached the hub of Portugal’s Romantic Era, Sintra, abundant with castles sheathed in vivid ceramic tiles, Gothic architecture and... Read more...
