The homesteads of the Galician nobility. Study about the counts of Amarante’s houses in the 18th century

Abstract

The enrichment of the Galician nobility during the Modern epoch would be reflected, among other things, on their settlement in urban areas, leaving their old homesteads, with few exceptions, in the hands of their administrators, of their householders or totally uninhabited. In this article we analize the specific example of the houses accumulated by the counts of Amarante along the modern epoch, in which major works would be carried out at various times of the eighteenth century, although major investments would be concentrated in those buildings where the counts were residing with their families.