Palácio Valenças

"Once upon a time, in a village called Sintra, a rich merchant from Lisbon, António Ferreira dos Anjos, decided somewhere in the second half of the 19th century to build a palace that would come to mark the wonderful scenery of Sintra. Giuseppe Cinatti was the famous Italian architect chosen to build the palace where, until 1850, a slaughterhouse operated in the same location. The palace was then built, surrounded by a majestic park, with fantastic paradisiacal gardens dotted with leisure corners, works of art, lakes, waterfalls and often ruined buildings that completed an environment conducive to nostalgic and evocative sensations of the important and ancient culture. European. António Anjos, left the palace to his daughter D. Guilhermina Rosa Matos Anjos, who inherited it in the 19th century. The name of the palace and garden became known as Palácio Valenças because Luís Leite Pereira Jardim, 1st Count of Valenças, was Guilhermina's husband, and also, because the future heir, would be their son, Ricardo Anjos Jardim, 2nd Count of Valenças. Thus making the palace known by that name."