Museu Ferreira de Castro

"The Ferreira de Castro Museum is located in the heart of Vila Velha de Sintra, in Casal de Santo António. It contains the private, literary and artistic estate of the great Portuguese novelist Ferreira de Castro (1898-1974), donated by him to the people of Sintra, a year before he passed away. The writer's office was reconstituted according to what existed in his house in Lisbon. In addition to personal objects and writings, the portraits by Eduardo Malta, Roberto Nobre and Stuart Carvalhais stand out. The Museum also displays paintings and drawings by Bernardo Marques, Cândido Portinari, Elena Muriel, Jorge Barradas and Júlio Pomar, among others, and sculptures by António Duarte, Anjos Teixeira and Júlio de Sousa. Ferreira de Castro's documentary collection consists of more than 20 thousand epistolary documents, periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, and is accessible to researchers. His work was awarded several prizes (Ricardo Malheiros, Paris Academy of Fine Arts, Golden Eagle at the Nice Book Festival, Latin Union), being nominated twice for the Nobel Prize for Literature."