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O Parque de Monserrate, outrora quinta de pomares e culturas, existe como tal desde o séc. XVIII, quando Gerard DeVisme alugou a quinta à família Melo e Castro, sua proprietária. Desde então, todos os que se seguiram - William Beckford, a família Cook, o Estado Português e, finalmente, desde Setembro de 2000, a Parques de Sintra-Monte da Lua, S. A. - esforçaram-se por criar um maravilhoso jardim botânico, ímpar nas suas características. Crucial no seu desenvolvimento esteve o que se viria a tornar o 1º Visconde de Monserrate, Francis Cook. Juntamente com o pintor paisagista William Stockdale, o botânico William Nevill e o mestre jardineiro James Burt, criaram-se cenários contrastantes que se sucedem ao longo de caminhos sinuosos por entre ruínas, recantos, cascatas e lagos, sugerindo, através de uma aparente desordem, o domínio da Natureza sobre o Homem. Assim, e contando sempre com a presença de espécies espontâneas de Portugal (medronheiros, azevinhos, sobreiros, entre outros), organiza o jardim com colecções de plantas de espécies oriundas dos cinco continentes, propondo-nos um passeio pelo mundo: fetos e metrosíderos evocam a Austrália;agaves, palmeiras e yucas recriam um cenário do México; rododendros, azáleas, bambus para o jardim do Japão. No total contabilizaram-se mais de duas mil e quinhentas espécies! <a href="http://www.cm-sintra.pt/Artigo.aspx?ID=2227" rel="nofollow">www.cm-sintra.pt/Artigo.aspx?ID=2227</a>

In 1858, Francis Cook contracted James Knowels Jr. to design the pavilion that he wanted to build in Monserrate. The architect found that he was restricted in various ways however, since he had to work with the existing structures of DeVisme’s old small Neo-Gothic Castle.

But the construction followed Knowels’ plan and the building proved to be original and highly eclectic. The three bodies of the pavilion – topped by bulbous red cupolas - have facades opened by doors and windows of soft Gothic curves. Preceding the entrance is an equally Neo-Gothic portico with a cincture of large entablatures. In the cornice are alternate modillions of trilobite spirals and arches, and emerging from the central body is a balcony with arches ornamented with decorative tiles imitating the mudejar style, which overlooks a leafy park. Inside the palace, the exuberant decoration of the plaster and domes accentuates the oriental style of the pavilion, particularly in the gallery and the “Music Room”, where a profusion of Indian and classical themes permeates the ensemble with its own dynamic, creating a unique aesthetic effect. The superb gardens around the royal building were designed and created by Stockdale and Thomas Gargill, who used the micro-climate of the mountain to create a magnificent park where more than three thousand exotic species can still be seen today. <a href="http://www.cm-sintra.pt/Artigo.aspx?ID=3167" rel="nofollow">www.cm-sintra.pt/Artigo.aspx?ID=3167</a>

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Author Vitor Oliveira from Torres Vedras, PORTUGAL
Camera location38° 47′ 38.94″ N, 9° 25′ 14.79″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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