Casa dos Bicos - Detail of the faƧade
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The Casa dos Bicos was built around 1523 by BrƔs de Albuquerque (1501-1581), son of the first governor of Portuguese India, Afonso de Albuquerque. BrƔs de Albuquerque had spent some years in Italy, where he could get first hand contact with Italian Renaissance architecture. He presumably saw urban palaces like the Palazzo dei Diamanti, in Ferrara, that have faƧades covered with diamond-shaped spikes. Upon his return to Portugal, BrƔs de Albuquerque built the Casa dos Bicos with a faƧade "dei diamanti", but incorporating Manueline (Portuguese late Gothic) windows and portals.
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