Palácio dos Condes de Castro Guimarães
Avenida Rei Humberto II de Itália
Cascais, April 2019
“The Palácio dos Condes de Castro Guimarães, originally known as the Torre de São Sebastião (St Sebastian's Tower), was built in 1900 as an aristocrat’s summer residence in Cascais, Lisbon District, Portugal. It became a museum in 1931. The building follows an eclectic architectural style, while the museum includes paintings of national and international significance, furniture, porcelain, jewellery and a neo-Gothic organ. Jorge O'Neil built the Torre de São Sebastião in 1900, to the designs of Francisco Vilaça. O'Neill was a Portuguese aristocrat of distant Irish descent who had multiple business interests including Portugal's match monopoly.[1] The nearby Casa de Santa Maria was also constructed at his behest.” (Palácio dos Condes de Castro Guimarães, Wikipedia)
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