The Castle of the Alvito located in Alvito, District of Beja, dominates a rise in plains the northeast of the city of Beja. This monument with military function and of residence took the one that also is classified as paço strenghtened.In 1475, D. Afonso V granted the heading of baron of Alvito João Fernandes da Silveira, few years later the sovereign granted the right from there to construct to a castle, granting to it the landlord to it of the village and the neighboring towns. The Castle will have started to be constructed in 1494 and had finished in 1504, ten years later.
After terramoto of 1755 that damages caused it, D. Barbarous Maria of Menezes promoted work to it of recovery in 1777. During the Liberal wars, the castle was damaged in 1834, having received workmanships of recovery to the level from estuque and painting.
In century XX, the castle was classified as National Monument for Decree
of 16 of June of 1910. After the implantation of the Republic, Former-sovereign D. Manuel II, integrated the castle to the património of the House of Bragança, in 1915, in which she is understood until today. From 1941 it took consolidation workmanships, with reconstruction of ameias and rebocos, the repairing of the roofs and demolition of masonry walls.
After the revolution of the Cravos of 25 of April of 1974, the dependences of the castle had been busy for the Commission of Inhabitants of Alvito, that promoted workmanships of adaptation in the first one and according to floor.
In 1980 and 1981, it suffers new workmanships from cloth repairing of the wall, of the rebocos, coverings, doors.
Since 1993 the requalificado castle started to be one of the establishments of the Inns of Portugal - Put of the castle of the Alvito.
Characteristics
the Castle is a mixing building of military architecture and apalaçada residence, where if they identify Islamic influences, Góticas and manuelinas.
Of plant to rectangular, with 4
ameados cylindrical torreões in the vertices, the sides define an interior patio where if it raises, the northwest, the Tower of House arrest under bail, adossada to the cloth of the wall. The high one of the walls is covered by one adarve constituted by railing alteado with merlões where if they tear the seteiras. The façades Southeastern and southwestern, in masonry, are characterized as of a palace; north-east and the northwest as walls joining the towers. The manuelinas and Islamic characteristics are identified by some windows in horseshoe, maineladas arc of, enrolled in conupial arc, with aduelas in brick, and for the naturalistic decoration of the capitéis.
Characteristics
the Castle is a mixing building of military architecture and apalaçada residence, where if they identify Islamic influences, Góticas and manuelinas.
Of plant to rectangular, with 4 ameados cylindrical torreões in the vertices, the sides define an interior patio where if it raises, the northwest, the Tower of House arrest under bail, adossada to the cloth of the wall. The high one of the walls is covered by one adarve constituted by railing alteado with merlões where if they tear the seteiras. The façades Southeastern and southwestern, in masonry, are characterized as of a palace; north-east and the northwest as walls joining the towers. The manuelinas and Islamic characteristics are identified by some windows in horseshoe, maineladas arc of, enrolled in conupial arc, with aduelas in brick, and for the naturalistic decoration of the capitéis.
After terramoto of 1755 that damages caused it, D. Barbarous Maria of Menezes promoted work to it of recovery in 1777. During the Liberal wars, the castle was damaged in 1834, having received workmanships of recovery to the level from estuque and painting.
In century XX, the castle was classified as National Monument for Decree
of 16 of June of 1910. After the implantation of the Republic, Former-sovereign D. Manuel II, integrated the castle to the património of the House of Bragança, in 1915, in which she is understood until today. From 1941 it took consolidation workmanships, with reconstruction of ameias and rebocos, the repairing of the roofs and demolition of masonry walls.After the revolution of the Cravos of 25 of April of 1974, the dependences of the castle had been busy for the Commission of Inhabitants of Alvito, that promoted workmanships of adaptation in the first one and according to floor.
In 1980 and 1981, it suffers new workmanships from cloth repairing of the wall, of the rebocos, coverings, doors.
Since 1993 the requalificado castle started to be one of the establishments of the Inns of Portugal - Put of the castle of the Alvito.
Characteristics
the Castle is a mixing building of military architecture and apalaçada residence, where if they identify Islamic influences, Góticas and manuelinas.
Of plant to rectangular, with 4
ameados cylindrical torreões in the vertices, the sides define an interior patio where if it raises, the northwest, the Tower of House arrest under bail, adossada to the cloth of the wall. The high one of the walls is covered by one adarve constituted by railing alteado with merlões where if they tear the seteiras. The façades Southeastern and southwestern, in masonry, are characterized as of a palace; north-east and the northwest as walls joining the towers. The manuelinas and Islamic characteristics are identified by some windows in horseshoe, maineladas arc of, enrolled in conupial arc, with aduelas in brick, and for the naturalistic decoration of the capitéis.Characteristics
the Castle is a mixing building of military architecture and apalaçada residence, where if they identify Islamic influences, Góticas and manuelinas.
Of plant to rectangular, with 4 ameados cylindrical torreões in the vertices, the sides define an interior patio where if it raises, the northwest, the Tower of House arrest under bail, adossada to the cloth of the wall. The high one of the walls is covered by one adarve constituted by railing alteado with merlões where if they tear the seteiras. The façades Southeastern and southwestern, in masonry, are characterized as of a palace; north-east and the northwest as walls joining the towers. The manuelinas and Islamic characteristics are identified by some windows in horseshoe, maineladas arc of, enrolled in conupial arc, with aduelas in brick, and for the naturalistic decoration of the capitéis.
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