Biscainhos Museum

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Hours: Saturday, 10AM–12:30PM, 2–5:30PM, Sunday, 10AM–12:30PM, 2–5:30PM

The Museum of Biscaínhos is located in a beautiful residential Palace of a form noble family, who built it in the 17th century.

This wonderful example of civil Barroque architecture style demonstrates what Baroque society was like in a noble residence with the original state of the various buildings preserved. In the house, there is an exhibition of 17th and 18th century art mostly built up from private donations of Baroque furniture and ceramics, Chinese porcelain, European glasswork, silverware, textiles in addition to Portuguese and European paintings. The gardens, inspired by 18th century French fashions, are some of the best preserved and most complete examples of the Baroque period.

The Gardens, facing the rear façade, were presumably defined within the scope of the major works to expand and enhance the House, in the second decade of the 18th century.

They are organized in an east-west direction, on three levels or levels and with an area of ​​1 hectare, divided into a terreiro, formal garden, the orchard and the vegetable garden, the whole being topped by walls. On the side, the property includes a sugarcane field, a dovecote and an alley of orange trees.