Manors and manor houses of your country

[Rouxinol]

I love the countryside, so I decided to open this thread. You can post manor houses and manors of your country. In Portugal there are mainly two types of manors, going by different names.

Herdade or quinta: grand rural property generally consisting of pasture (called montado) and sowing land.

Casal: a rural property similar to the herdade/quinta, but smaller in size.

The solar: the country house/cottage placed in a herdade/quinta or casal, that used to be traditionally owned by the landed gentry.

Many of them are dedicated to the production of wine, development of livestock, hunting, horsemanship and/or more recently to countryside tourism.

Examples:

Herdade da Matinha (Alentejo, Portugal)

[Talvi]

Manor - in estonian - mõis.
They arent used any more for their original purpose, as far as I know. Now they are museums or hotels. In my hometown the manor and the stable next to it were converted into a theatre:


Others:















And manor workers from 1782

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Have to include this aswell, from a neighbouring village :





It was common practice (many years ago) in rural areas for people to sell things on trust. Its very refreshing to see this again, although i hope no one takes advantage of this 'gesture' and ends up stealing everything!

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