Places
Joana Couceiro
Regular Visits
Building with partial access to people with reduced mobility
Tours
Sat 11h00, Carlos Pereira / Sat, Dr. Manuel Almeida Carneiro
Maximum 30 people per visit
No reservation required; first-come, first-served
No wheelchair access
Photography allowed
Description
In his many incursions to his proprieties in Leça do Balio, the choirmaster of Porto’s main cathedral made a farm of recreation and retreat, built surely over a rural house with an anonymous constructer, of which considerable marks were left in Nicolau Nasoni’s re-composition of the 1700s. A real petrification of a baroque setting, the house’s new façade, whose interior intimacy the visitor can only imagine, could only have been designed to be seen from the exterior, with a baroque-style garden. What took the architect of the Clérigos tower (long before Siza Vieira) to apparently go without the handrail of the exterior staircase in the project? When we pass the threshold of this exuberant scenario, set as the space of reception of the house, on the other side we can find farming lands that reveal the most internal side of the house left almost untouched by Nasoni, perhaps on purpose.
Location
Rua do Chantre, Leça do Balio
Directions: Google Maps / Apple Maps
Public Transport
Bus: STCP - 604 / Maré - 128