Museums and Palaces

José Régio was, throughout his life, a great art collector, mainly of popular art and, mostly, of Sacred Art. Christ , ex-vows, irons, religious statuary, as well as a wide range of typological objects that were collected, bought or traded for this great figure of Portuguese literature in the twentieth century.

It is an intimate space, with the functional areas of a normal house, all carefully thought out and organized by the poet himself, all but the modern painting room, assembled after his death by his brother Júlio, according to Régio’s wishes. The office, the bedroom (where he died), the dining room and garden are the key areas of this house.