This is, all the terrains, that included approximately 40 hectares, today occupying the road from Sacavém to Amoreiras, passing through the parishes of São João de Deus, terminating in the north at Azinhaga da Feiteira (Charneca) and whose southerly limit along the Rua Actriz Virgínia, in Alto do Pina.

[2][6][7] Owing to having the most fertile lands in Lisbon, the de-annexed parcels were cultivated to support the markets of the capital, including the Quinta da Montanha.

It was D. Lourenço Vaz de Almada, the property-owner and Count of Avranches, who as engineer by training, remodeled the exterior and renovated the interiors, taking the decision to install himself and family at the estate permanently.

[1] The Church of Santa Joana Princesa, consecrated on 30 May 2002 (with the creation of the ecclesiastical parish on 25 March 1959), was installed on terrains that were part of the estate.

Their proposal was presented to Cardinal Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, initially for the construction of a chapel dedicated to Santa Joana Princesa, owing to the long history of this devotion in the Almada family.

[2] Access to the main floor is made by staircase and landing, with two rounded niches in simple stone, with mythical sculpture from the 18th century.

[2] The interior of the palace includes a large possessions of an artistic quality, with paintings by Carlos Reis, an oratory with presbytery decorated in trompe-l'oeil and a 16th-century representation of Martírio de São Lourenço, in addition to a mark used to delimit the property.