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THE ITALIAN HOUSE<br />
- BRIEF HISTORY<br />
<strong>The</strong> charter letter is dated from 1154 by the<br />
first king of Portugal D. Afonso Henriques to<br />
thirty settlers who inhabited the Sintra Castle.<br />
<strong>The</strong> same King delivered in 1156 to the<br />
Knights Templar "some good Village houses"<br />
where it is thought to be the place of the<br />
current Café Paris and the Hotel Central.<br />
In the sixteenth century Sintra was<br />
already visited by numerous artists. And<br />
therefore, the construction of summer<br />
houses begins.<br />
In 1755, Sintra, also suffers the effects of the<br />
earthquake that hit Lisbon and it is, therefore,<br />
necessary to rebuild the Old Town.
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