title: Ernesto Korrodi
text: # Ernesto Korrodi
  
  Ernesto Korrodi (Zürich, 31 January 1870 – Leiria, 3 February 1944), was a Swiss-born architect who moved to Portugal aged 19, spending the remainder of his life there.
  
  He later adopted Portuguese citizenship, and married a Portuguese woman. He died in 1944.
  
  ## Main works
  
  He has more than 400 works in all Portugal of which the most important are:
  
  * Castle of D. Chica
  * Hotel Guadiana in the town of Vila Real de Santo António, the oldest Hotel in the Algarve.
  * Restoration of Leiria Castle
  * Church of Santa Catarina da Serra, Leiria (1902)
  