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The most outstanding architectural element, however. fairly recent. It is called the "House of the Castle", a revivalist palace of rectangular plan, with two towers with ameias to flank the frontispiece and a Neogothic deposit. The whole, which dominates a natural landscape of undeniable beauty, was built in the second half of the nineteenth century by a native of the parish returned from Brazil, and first Visconde de Sistelo, Manuel A. Gonçalves Roque.

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