Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Out of the Jurisdiction: Along the Douro River


Today we visited a small town along the Douro River, Vila Real.  Outside the town is the palace of the current head of the Mateus family, Casa de Mateus.  A modern sculpture of a nude woman
lies in the reflecting pool, left over from a previous art exhibition at the palace. 


The rear of the palace is as fine as the front of many other grand houses. 
 It leads to rose gardens and topiary hedges.

4 comments:

RedPat said...

Beautiful! I like the sculpture a lot!

Sharon said...

A beautiful place!

Stefan Jansson said...

Wow. What a place. Your top photo is very good.

William Kendall said...

Beautiful indeed.