Quinta da Penha Longa. Análise e requalificação dos jardins

Abstract

The Historic Gardens symbolize the passing of generations and bring to today important testimonies that allow us to perceive and analyze the characteristics and formal concerns, aesthetic and symbolic of the era in which they find themselves. At present many of the existing Historic Gardens are serious degradation problems requiring rapid action to not completely lose their initial characteristics. So, arises the Landscape Architect that through historical analysis of each garden and taking into account the current needs of their users return them identity through restoration techniques, recovery and rehabilitation. One among many examples in Portugal are the Gardens of Penha Longa in Sintra. Inserted into a monastic complex of the early fifteenth century, the gardens, element of study and intervention in this thesis, are currently in reasonable condition, having suffered recent intervention by the School of Professional Asset Recovery Sintra. For a more practical approach of this set were chosen to undergo three gardens intervention improvement, in order to give them and return its initial characteristics that were missing over the centuries