Diogo da Fonseca Acciaioli Coutinho de Sousa Tavares \u2013 last owner of the farm and palace of Lameira, was born in Portalegre on the 3th December 1831 and was child of Jos\u00e9 Maria da Fonseca Acciaioli Coutinho and D. Maria Ana de Barros Castelo Branco.<\/p>\n
In his residence on the town of Portalegre, were we can stil see on the frontal elevation the heraldry confirmation of Fonseca Accialioli\u2019s landlord, is nowadays adapted and amplified to educational purposes, where formerly was Mouzinho da Silveira\u2019s school and recently is Portalegre Superior School.<\/p>\n
On the big manor house of his ancestries, Diogo organized expensive political festivities of huge rattle. After the Pact of Granja, they merged historical and reformist parties in a new party that both called the Progressive Party. Diogo da Fonseca remained in Portalegre having a major role on unprecedented electoral battles that took him huge amounts of money deeply compromising his huge wealth.<\/p>\n
Diogo da Fonseca Acciaioli Coutinho Sousa Tavares, the progressive party influential politician of his time entered in decay after ruining his wealth and died almost in misery, lonely and sad (single and without children).<\/p>\n His inheritance was sold by the State and Entre-as-Ribeiras lands was bought by Jos\u00e9 Carrilho de Moura, son of Joaquim Carrilho, on the thirties. On the hands of this new owner, the property passed trough some changes. He created some leisure areas near the dam and on the backyard of the hill and also the curious construction behind the hill \u2013 the castle, main object of this study.<\/p>\n \u00a0Most part of the changes (the vineyard hill, the wine cellar, the oil mill, the barn, the dairy, tower\/castle and others) were handled to Jos\u00e9 Agostinho constructor, artist of skillfull hands, that lived 20kms away in Vale do Peso always under the surveillance of Jos\u00e9 Carrilho de Moura. The construction of the tower\/castle was done between 1940 and 1943 and the dam was done afterwards in 1955.<\/p>\n \u00a0The statement full of memories from Mr. Jos\u00e9 Chico, 83 years old and living in Fortios was very important to understand some of the changes and ways of living on those lands \u2013 \u201ctimes of hunting, visitations and huge vanities\u201d. Mr. Jos\u00e9 Chico played during life on the property several tasks as keeper, driver and others.<\/p>\n The Torre properties was considered a vast property, having in those times a milling with French cylinders and millstones. Jos\u00e9 Elias Martins inherited from his father and his father-in-law Joaquim Manuel da Moura other properties where he also did some improvements, but the center of his lands was Torre property. It was a known and well spoken character on Portalegre municipality for having built a bullring in Portalegre.<\/p>\n![\"entre_ribeiras_1\"](\"http:\/\/pom.pt\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/entre_ribeiras_1.jpg\")
<\/a>This palace built on the last quarter of the XVIII century as well as Lameira and Entre-as-Ribeiras residences and designed by arquitect Jose Carlos da Fonseca Coutinho (who afterwards took the magistrate career), reveals inside similarities of construction to what lately became the residence of Avilez earl.<\/p>\n<\/a>Jos\u00e9 Carrilho de Moura had a sister, In\u00eas Carrilho de Moura Martins spouse of Jos\u00e9 Elias Martins, who were owners of the old property of Tojais, Torre among others. This last one was named like this because as it is told, when Jos\u00e9 Carrilho de Moura finished the construction of the tower\/castle in Entre-as-Ribeiras, his brother-in-law didn\u2019t want to stay behind and decided to build also a smaller and not so \u201cwealthy\u201d tower in his property.<\/p>\n