Quinta Fonte da Pipa

This elegant structure has a rather rich mystical history.

According to legend, the palace received its first curse at the foundation stage: there was a so—called "Pipa spring" on the construction site - a spring named after a pious girl. The water from this spring was considered curative and for many centuries was used by the inhabitants of the village of Lule as a cure for infertility. When the land was bought in the middle of the 19th century, and access to the spring was blocked, a young woman whose husband abandoned her because she could not get pregnant, threw herself into the ocean. But before that, she allegedly uttered the words of a curse addressed to the palace that had not yet been built: "May you be as empty and cold as my womb." The man who bought the land never saw his palace finished - he died a few years before the completion of construction under strange circumstances.

The banker who bought the finished palace in the 20s of the last century went bankrupt, and kinta went under the hammer. Then it changed owners several times, but it never became habitable. Rumors added to the palace's notoriety that at the beginning of the XX century, when the "Spanish flu" epidemic passed through Europe, the corpses of those who died from this terrible disease were buried on the territory of Quinta.

They say that coughing and moaning of women dying in childbirth can still be heard in the empty halls of the palace.