Assumption of Our Lady

In this day of August, 15, we celebrate the feastivity of the Assumption of Our Lady to Heaven.
It's such an important feast that today we don't work.

We went already to Mass, as it should be.

So, for Our Lady, all these roses.

For Pink Saturday at How Sweet The Sound.

The Romantic Museum of Oporto

I visited, in Oporto, some time ago, a beautiful museum that was a house in the XIX century. I felt so well inside. I am sure that most of you would like it. So, I will postsome pictures of it but, sorry for the poor quality of some of them, because we could take picture but without flash.

As it says in the Town Council website: the Museum reproduces the interior of a rich dwelling of the 19th century with special notice to some aspects of the decorative arts of that period. Charles Albert, King of Sardinia came here into exile and died on this house on 28 July 1849. Some of the rooms of the house where he lived were restored in his memory.

Here it goes.

The two above pictures show the diningroom.

What I liked in this house was the "normal look" of it. Could be a house of today, it was not a palace, just a good house.

The ball room - well this room is not from a "normal" house !

One bedroom.

The chaise long so the lady of the house could have a nap after lunch withour goung to bed at that time of the day - most improper for a lady, going to bed in the afternoon.

Isn't that beautiful ?

Here is the King Charles Albert of Sardinia, that lived here his last days .

Very inspiring, this lovely house and his furniture.

Outdoor Wednesday

Today is Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Daydreamer and I'll show you a wonderful garden in Porto ( Oporto). It's the garden of Serralves.

The house is Art Déco, very nice, built in the 30' by the Count of Vizela.

There is also another house that is a museum of modern art - which I don't like at all.

So, I won't post about it.

Instead I will show you the gardens.

The gardens are amazing.

Looks like we are inside a Poirot movie.

Hooked on roses

I'm hooked on roses. Little ones, big, everykind.

So. today, for Hooked on Fridays at Hooked on Houses, I will post some pictures of my favorite flower: roses.

Outdoor Wednesday

Today I'll show you some views of the city of Oporto, Portugal. ( read also here )

It's a very ancient and important city in the North of Portugal and, for their own people, the most important one.

It's the same name of the Port Wine because it was there that the wine was traded and we still can see a lot of brand names near the river. This boat, now for turism, reminds us the ones used for the transport of the wine from the places where ir was made to the town where it would be sold and shiped everywhere.

You can see here the Torre dos Clérigos.

Porto is a place full of beautiful gardens. This one is the Palácio de Cristal garden, now Pavilhão Rosa Mota. It was from here that I took most of the pictures I'm posting today - not the ones with the Torre dos Clérigos in.

I hope you, seeing these beauties, feel encouraged to visit Portugal because we have a lot of wonderful places, full of beauty and History. And good food also!

For Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Daydreamer.

Blue Monday

The rain...

This was taken in a glorious rainy day in Guimarães, in the Minho (North of Portugal).

For Blue Monday at Smiling Sally .