Guided Tour of Museu Condes De Castro Guimarães
The Condes de Castro Guimarães Museum is housed in the old Torre de S. Sebastião, built between Protected content 1900, in the Santa Marta cove at the initiative of Jorge O'Neill, an aristocrat and financier of Irish descent.
A notable work of Cascais' summer architecture, this complex is integrated into the current Marechal Carmona Park (or Gandarinha Park), where the Chapel of S. Sebastião (dating from about Protected content also located.
The old Tower of S. Sebastião became a museum thanks to Manuel Inácio de Castro Guimarães ( Protected content ), its second owner, who in Protected content awarded the title of Count of Castro Guimarães by D. Manuel II.
In Protected content , the Count of Castro Guimarães bequeathed the house, its artistic contents and books to Cascais as a municipal museum and public library, in conjunction with the gardens and the adjacent park “for recreation of the public.” The museum opened on July 12, Protected content .
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