Duarte Pinto Coelho House

The current Duarte Pinto Coelho House occupies the former House of the Guards of the Castro Guimarães Counts Palace - what a great life aristocrats used to have. Nowadays, it displays the collections of famed interior decorator Duarte Pinto Coelho, a “cascaense” who lived a large part of his life in Madrid. This is also the home of the Earl of Barcelona Chair of the Dukes of Soria Science and Hispanic Culture Foundation in Portugal. You can visit the temporary exhibition, until Janurary next year, on “Liturgical Vestments”, with clergy clothing from the 16th to the 20th century: stoles, chasubles, body pouches and more, in materials such as gold, satin or silk.