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The best preserved part of the house is the kitchen. After the fire in 1994 most of the building was destroyed whereas it was almost made of stone, suffered less damage.
It consists of a “lareira” (a hearth stone-lined fireplace for cooking food) crowned by a bell-shaped structure -“cambota” ending in a masonry chimney with an internal drainage system that assures the drops of rain will not enter into.
The sink was placed under a window, with a drainpipe to the outside, quite an advance for that time. The the hollows of the wall placed opened larders.
In the kitchen people used to eat, rest, pray, tell stories; also, it was the room where different social strata (masters and servants who lived in the same house) concurred.
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