Eça de Queirós Statue
Largo do Barão de Quintela, Rua do Allecrim, Lisbon 1200
Phone: +351 210 312 700
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Eça de Queirós (1845-1900) is generally regarded as Portugal’s greatest realist writer and one of the most important literary figures in 19th century Europe. He has been compared with Dickens, Balzac, Flaubert and Tolstoy and was referred to as the Portuguese Zola; he was a fierce critic of religious hypocrisy. The imposing statue in the Largo do Barão de Quintela, by the distinguished Portuguese sculptor Teixeira Lopez, was erected in 1903 and depicts Eça de Queirós with a scantily clad muse, presumed to be the writer’s inspiring goddess.
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