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On the ceiling of its entrance porch, you can see<br />
a coat with painted Weapons of his daughter -<br />
Rio Maior Countess - D Amalia de Carvalho Daun<br />
and Lorraine Saldanha Oliveira e Sousa.<br />
<strong>The</strong> coat of arms has an eagle with a key in his<br />
mouth that comes from weapons of Daun.<br />
It symbolizes the history of the first Earl of Daun,<br />
who was arrested by a rival and imprisoned in a<br />
tower of a castle in Bohemia. To escape, friends<br />
tamed an eagle, teaching it to fly with a key in its<br />
beak to the tower window. <strong>The</strong>refore, the First Earl<br />
could open the prison door and flee.
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