Casa dos Bicos
Casa dos Bicos is Lisbon’s “diamond-spike” Renaissance house, built with a façade shaped to resemble thousands of small, cut stone pyramids. Mandated between 1521 and 1523 by Brás de Albuquerque, it is also locally known as Casa Brás de Albuquerque. The design draws on Italian Renaissance palaces—especially the style inspired by Ferrara’s Palazzo dei Diamanti—yet it mixes in Manueline details, including late Gothic windows and portals. The building’s story includes disaster: it survived the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which destroyed much of the city, though the residence later fell into disuse and was used as a warehouse. After a 20th-century renovation, it became the headquarters of the José Saramago Foundation, and it later hosted the Museum of Lisbon. …
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