Located in Praça João de Deus Ramos, city and municipality of Alcobaça, District of Leiria, Central Portugal
The Palacete do Pena - Paços do Concelho is of Brazilian influence, it was built in 1890 by Francisco Oriol Pena, of bourgeois taste with a romantic flavor like other houses called “Casas dos Brasileiros”.
The owners who became rich in Brazil brought an imported taste from there, the slope of the water on the roofs denounces this influence as it is greater than what is necessary for the Portuguese climate.
When Francisco do Pena immigrated to Brazil, where he made his fortune, he later returned to Portugal and built the Palacete Pena with taste influences brought from his time in Brazil.
Palacete Pena was designed by a Swiss architect and with characteristics very close to the neo-romantic style.
In the building, the ostentation, grandeur and verticality of the roofs used in countries where snow is quite abundant is evident.
Francisco Pena's marriage to D. Maria Nazaré Rio did not produce any offspring, which led to the death of the owner and the respective property was sold to the Alcobaça City Council, with the building now housing the Alcobaça Town Hall.
Palacete do Pena is an excellent example of romantic architecture in Alcobaça and can be seen together with other chalets and palaces such as Challet Fonte Nova, Chalet Rino, Palacete Araújo Guimarães, Palacete Bernardino Lopes de Oliveira and Palacete Cova da Onça.
The Pena Palace had a green park around the house, centuries-old trees, oak trees, palm trees, lamps, garden benches, bushes with colorful flowers, hydrangeas and blue flowers.
A place to walk, rest, like a perpetual romantic garden in its style, with a free layout with curves and paths that generally lead to a resting place.
A shaded area with garden benches, a resting place, still today retains that calm air of the past, contrasting with the noisy environment that surrounds metropolitan cities.
The owners who became rich in Brazil brought an imported taste from there, the slope of the water on the roofs denounces this influence as it is greater than what is necessary for the Portuguese climate.
When Francisco do Pena immigrated to Brazil, where he made his fortune, he later returned to Portugal and built the Palacete Pena with taste influences brought from his time in Brazil.
Palacete Pena was designed by a Swiss architect and with characteristics very close to the neo-romantic style.
In the building, the ostentation, grandeur and verticality of the roofs used in countries where snow is quite abundant is evident.
Francisco Pena's marriage to D. Maria Nazaré Rio did not produce any offspring, which led to the death of the owner and the respective property was sold to the Alcobaça City Council, with the building now housing the Alcobaça Town Hall.
Palacete do Pena is an excellent example of romantic architecture in Alcobaça and can be seen together with other chalets and palaces such as Challet Fonte Nova, Chalet Rino, Palacete Araújo Guimarães, Palacete Bernardino Lopes de Oliveira and Palacete Cova da Onça.
The Pena Palace had a green park around the house, centuries-old trees, oak trees, palm trees, lamps, garden benches, bushes with colorful flowers, hydrangeas and blue flowers.
A place to walk, rest, like a perpetual romantic garden in its style, with a free layout with curves and paths that generally lead to a resting place.
A shaded area with garden benches, a resting place, still today retains that calm air of the past, contrasting with the noisy environment that surrounds metropolitan cities.
