{"id":19162,"date":"2026-07-07T12:14:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palacioficalho.pt\/casa\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:58:19","slug":"the-house","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/palacioficalho.pt\/en\/palace\/the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"House"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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THE HOUSE OPENS INTO THE SERPA LANDSCAPE, BOTH TO THE WEST, WHERE IT RISES OVER THE WALLS, AND TO THE EAST, WHERE THE LARGE MAIN FA\u00c7ADE FACES THE HISTORIC CENTER.
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Pal\u00e1cio Ficalho is a manor house hailing from the second half of the 17th century. It is integrated into the medieval wall that surrounds the historic centre of Serpa. The palace\u2019s name comes from the \u201cMello\u201d family, who were initially lords, and then counts and marquises of Ficalho. <\/p>

As a 17th century building, it represents an important example of architectura ch\u00e3 (in English, \u201cplain architecture\u201d), an architectural style in Portugal that comes from the Italian maneirismo. Architectura ch\u00e3 is characterized by austerity of form and the presence of vernacular traditions. The project is attributed to the architect Mateus do Couto, Sobrinho. <\/p>

During the 20th century, the marquises of Ficalho, Ant\u00f3nio Martim de Mello and Maria das Dores de E\u00e7a de Queir\u00f3s de Mello, sought to reverse the process of degradation of the building, and started restoration and rehabilitationworks <\/a>that lasted between 1946 and 1973. The quality of their restoration was recognised by the Institut International des Ch\u00e2teaux Historiques, in 1984. <\/p>

In 2007, Pal\u00e1cio Ficalho was classified as national monument.
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RATIONALISM AND AUSTERITY ARE THE GUIDELINES.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The House THE HOUSE OPENS INTO THE SERPA LANDSCAPE, BOTH TO THE WEST, WHERE IT RISES OVER THE WALLS, AND TO THE EAST, WHERE THE LARGE MAIN FA\u00c7ADE FACES THE HISTORIC CENTER. Pal\u00e1cio Ficalho is a manor house hailing from the second half of the 17th century. It is integrated into the medieval wall that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19200,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palacioficalho.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palacioficalho.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palacioficalho.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palacioficalho.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palacioficalho.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/palacioficalho.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19167,"href":"https:\/\/palacioficalho.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19162\/revisions\/19167"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palacioficalho.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palacioficalho.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}