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The Renaissance in Spain and Portugal
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large terrace (Fig. 304), 160 by 156 metres. At the opposite corner there is a large sunk
basin about thirty metres long, shut in by walls, against one of which stands a hall con-
structed with three pavilions (Fig. 305), the rest of it covered with tiles and terra-cotta
busts. At the other corners are two little pavilions, and below there is a second terrace of
the same size, both of them at the present time used for fruit and vineyard gardens. Whether
the upper terrace, which shows a rather narrow band running along the wall and some-
what raised, was formerly intended as a flower parterre, must remain uncertain. The
ground was very large for that time, and one cannot suppose there were no fountains in
connection with it, but they must have entirely perished. Anyhow the whole place, cistern
and house alike, has no predecessor similar to it either in Spain or in Italy.
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FIG. 306. BEMFICA: QUINTA
The basin with walls and tiU
fria, near Cintra, reminds us mo E_ SZ
The windows of the best rooms c = o> "g
there is a pretty summer-house, a=_ 1
A real treasure is the Villa Be E m O
ever been a spot beloved by the = +-»
friend and contemporary of the p E N C- 5
was very much enlarged in the e -
seventeenth when it was first put -
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square, confined by box, with flow —
one finds some fine clipped box, i=- Q)
them in the crossways, indicate t E-^ ^"
in every corner. Here too, howev=- \mJ
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trical beds, mostly
306). Among these
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orned with statues
I new and strange,
garden (Fig. 307).
ds in it, while the
383
large terrace (Fig. 304), 160 by 156 metres. At the opposite corner there is a large sunk
basin about thirty metres long, shut in by walls, against one of which stands a hall con-
structed with three pavilions (Fig. 305), the rest of it covered with tiles and terra-cotta
busts. At the other corners are two little pavilions, and below there is a second terrace of
the same size, both of them at the present time used for fruit and vineyard gardens. Whether
the upper terrace, which shows a rather narrow band running along the wall and some-
what raised, was formerly intended as a flower parterre, must remain uncertain. The
ground was very large for that time, and one cannot suppose there were no fountains in
connection with it, but they must have entirely perished. Anyhow the whole place, cistern
and house alike, has no predecessor similar to it either in Spain or in Italy.
— o
FIG. 306. BEMFICA: QUINTA
The basin with walls and tiU
fria, near Cintra, reminds us mo E_ SZ
The windows of the best rooms c = o> "g
there is a pretty summer-house, a=_ 1
A real treasure is the Villa Be E m O
ever been a spot beloved by the = +-»
friend and contemporary of the p E N C- 5
was very much enlarged in the e -
seventeenth when it was first put -
— CD
O
square, confined by box, with flow —
one finds some fine clipped box, i=- Q)
them in the crossways, indicate t E-^ ^"
in every corner. Here too, howev=- \mJ
a basin lying at the side, which oc Ej?
In the water stand two statues, ; =_
08
zr _ ^- c
— re —* (0
— _J >
O
— CM
o
o
O
E E
— o
0
■
1
CO I iRTERRE
tie castle of Biba-
l Te, and Petraja.
>! I side of the basin
O
cantara, which has
iuez de Fronteira,
" i nmer-house which
£ i Dt the style of the
o ■ .
trical beds, mostly
306). Among these
e fountains, one of
orned with statues
I new and strange,
garden (Fig. 307).
ds in it, while the