The Italian House_3
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DESIGNED BY AN<br />
ITALIAN ARCHITECT<br />
OF GREAT PRESTIGE<br />
On this farm two houses are built. One in the<br />
upper part, for the Marquis, and the other at<br />
a lower level for his mother.<br />
His mother’s house got the name of ‘<strong>Italian</strong><br />
<strong>House</strong>’ because it was designed by an<br />
<strong>Italian</strong> architect of great prestige, having<br />
prepared a draft of a semicircular building<br />
and where workers and <strong>Italian</strong> artists were<br />
employed to paint the frescoes for both the<br />
interior and exterior.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Marquis de Saldanha was appointed<br />
Ambassador in London, around the year<br />
1840, where he remained some years, and<br />
some historians considered his departure as<br />
an exile to end his career.<br />
At that time the estate was sold to an English<br />
family.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Italian</strong> <strong>House</strong> returned to the possession<br />
of the Marquis of Pombal’s daughter.
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