A Casa-Museu no ‘THE IRISH TIMES’

A Casa-Museu no ‘THE IRISH TIMES’

Desta feita foi o ‘THE IRISH TIMES’, jornal do grupo do diário ‘The New York Times’, que recomenda a visita à Casa-Museu:

“Weekend in . . . Lisbon 
The Portuguese city has been spruced up without compromising its antiquity and is full of cool bars and quirky restaurants 

(…) Saturday 
Arts and craftsmanship 
Some of the best things in life are not free. Qing dynasty Chinese porcelain vases. Paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Younger. Marble water basins from Versailles. Luckily for Lisbon visitors, the late businessman António de Medeiros e Almeida had deep pockets and a thirst for exquisitely wrought items, resulting in a late 19th-century mansion overflowing with decorative arts. As you stride over the marble floors of Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida, you can appraise yourself in gilded mirrors by Thomas Chippendale, walk past 19th-century carpets woven in the Silk Road city of Samarkand, worship at a carved altar from a church in Goa and admire an intricately decorated sky-blue porcelain bidet…”