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4.7

Palácio Nacional da Ajuda

Palace • Lisboa, Lisboa

High on Ajuda hill, this neoclassical palace speaks less of completed triumph than of ambition, interruption and endurance. Conceived at the start of the nineteenth century to...

4.5

Palácio Nacional de Sintra

Palace • Sintra, Lisboa

The National Palace of Sintra seems to rise out of the town itself, with its two white chimneys announcing a place where royal history has remained intact. With a thousand years...

4.4

Palácio Nacional da Pena

Palace • Sintra, Lisboa

The National Palace of Pena rises above the hills as a romantic fantasy turned into stone. Dreamed up by Ferdinand the Second, the Artist King, it grew from the transformation of...

4.6

Palácio Nacional e Jardins de Queluz

Palace • Sintra, Lisboa

In Queluz, the Portuguese court still seems to breathe among luminous state rooms and gardens designed for pleasure. Born from a country house belonging to the Casa do Infantado,...

4.7

Parque e Palácio de Monserrate

Palace • Sintra, Lisboa

At Monserrate, Romanticism seems to have taken on an almost vegetal form. The story of the place begins in 1540, with the hermitage ordered by Frei Gaspar Preto, but the setting...

4.7

Palácio e Parque Biester

Palace • Sintra, Lisboa

In Sintra, Palácio e Parque Biester show how late Romanticism could be both theatrical and intimate at the same time. Built in the last decade of the nineteenth century for the...

4.6

Jardim do Palácio de São Bento

Garden • Lisboa, Lisboa

Behind the solemn façade of Parliament, the Garden of São Bento Palace reveals a more secluded and theatrical side of this place of power. Designed by Cristino da Silva, it is...

4.7

Palácio e Quinta da Regaleira

Palace • Sintra, Lisboa

In Sintra, the Palace and Quinta da Regaleira feel less like a country house than like a world imagined in stone, water and vegetation. António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro bought...

4.6

Palácio Nacional de Mafra

Palace • Mafra, Lisboa

In Mafra, the scale of the palace seems to have been conceived to turn a royal vow into a spectacle of power. Commissioned by King João V and begun in 1717, the complex brings...

4.6

Museu de Lisboa Palácio Pimenta

Museum • Lisboa, Lisboa

In Campo Grande, Palácio Pimenta reveals Lisbon from within a place that is itself already part of the city’s history. Built between 1744 and 1748 as an eighteenth-century summer...

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