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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Visit the Palace of the riding arena - Alpedrinha

The building of the Riding School, owned by the Municipality of Fundão, and located in the Town of Alpedrinha, is unfortunately in ruins. It consists of two parts: the Orient, older, and the west, which was later built at the end of the century. Eighteenth-century principles. XIX.

The palace served as residence for the Jesuits.

The main facade of the palace, the center has the coat of Correia da Silva, and faces the west and opens onto a square courtyard, called a riding school and has about 18 m. In every corner of the wall that delimits the courtyard there is an obelisk of four meters and the entrance gate there was a monumental, all worked. On the south side of the ring there is a very high wall overlooking the Royal Fountain and this wall on the side of the riding arena, there are four seats with side railings, which you can enjoy a magnificent panorama.

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