AFA.2016.0098_Casa do Fojo Located on Rua Entre Muros and Rua Hemengarda Seabra, Zona do Fojo, Parish of Canidelo, in Vila Nova de Gaia

Founded in 1714 by the English general William Neville, Quinta do Fojo is already mentioned in the Parish Memoirs of 1758, where it is said that the parish of St. Andrew of Canidelo had "another Capella within its fifth estate that has John Neuel, a British nation With the name of Saint John the Evangelist. " At this time, the property was already in the possession of a descendant - John Nevil or Neville. It is not known who was responsible for the construction of the House of habitation, but the property that we know today, composed of house, chapel and courtyard, can still be inscribed in eighteenth century language, where the façade imposes itself as the main dynamizing element of architecture, With symmetrical spans, whose rhythm converges to the center, in the composition formed by the portal and balcony window in the noble floor. Nevertheless, there are many elements that announce own solutions of the neoclassicism that was impose