The Nossa Senhora da Vitória Residence in the neighbourhood of Graça is a private social care institution belonging to the Fraternity of the Holy Sacrament of Vitória Church, located in the “Vivenda Rosalina”. This early 20th century palacete, which has a private chapel, a pond and a garden, was built by the owner of the Estrela D’Ouro Neighbourhood, the confectionary industrialist Agapito Serra Fernandes.

Converted into a retirement home (with around 80 residents), the Nossa Senhora da Vitória Residence has a garden that now opens its gates to reveal its unique combination of eccentricity and simplicity: around the large central pond in its patio, made of Portuguese calçada paving stones that invoke the name of the neighbourhood with five-pointed stars, we find various flower beds that mix geraniums with wildflowers, begonias and gazanias, and a view that takes in the city below.