Counts of Resende Manor House (Solar Condes de Resende) was bought by the Town Hall of Vila Nova de Gaia on the 30th of October 1984, date when the signature of the deed of purchase and sale was signed with João de Castro de Mendia, 10th Count of Resende. Before the acquisition, the property was known as Costa Farm (Quinta da Costa) or Canelas House (Casa de Canelas), being the name used today as an homage to its last owners.

The property has its most ancient reference in the Negrelos Charter (Carta de Negrelos) document from 1042, later belonged to the Baldaya family, at the end of the 18th century to the Pamplona Carneiro Rangel family, after entitled Viscounts of Beire and, already in the nineteenth century, to the Counts of Resende. Manuel Benedito de Castro Pamplona, the 6th of that title, died in here in 1907. He was brother-in-law of the writer Eça de Queirós, his school colleague from younger years. The author of The Maias met and fell in love at this manor by the count’s sister Emília, to whom he got married in 1886. Along the 20th century the property was inhabited by members of the family, after by their tenants and also by the Sarmento Pimentel family.

Presently it is one of the cultural equipments of the Municipality.