Architecture of Portuguese complexes

The architecture of the Portuguese complexes in Sintra – Pena and Regaleira-is given as examples of foreign buildings. They were built in the second half of the XIX century.- the beginning of the XX century. in the style of Manueline-an original architectural style of the XV-XVI centuries, the era of the great navigators, the period of the highest heyday of Portugal (when the area of its territories was equal to the area of the USSR), which absorbed the features of Gothic, Renaissance and Moorish style. Carvings of this style are characterized by images of weaves resembling ropes, as well as a variety of fruits and vegetables that navigators could take with them on a long sea trip, but in even greater numbers in the carved decor you can find stone images of strange plants and animals that were not in Portugal, so to speak, overseas wonders, captured in stone, as an opportunity to share impressions with fellow citizens from what they saw far away.

For construction and stone carving in Portugal, a local variety of limestone resembling soapstone was used.

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Now stone carving, as for centuries, is used in the decoration of respectable buildings and premises. In addition, carved decor, mainly on limestone or marble, is widely used in church architecture both in the old days and now: for decorating the facades of newly erected churches, for making kiosks, iconostases, thrones, altars, white stone chapels, as well as memorial monuments and crosses.

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