For those who like palaces and love to imagine what life would have been like at court, the Queluz National Palace is like a time machine capable of transporting us to 18th century.
One of the things I like the most in the palace was the furnitture, some of the pieces would be great to store my precious postcards. I bet Ninocas and Joana thought the same.
© Sergiy Scheblykin 2016
The National Palace of Queluz and its historical gardens are one of the most remarkable examples of the harmonious link between landscape and palatial architecture in Portugal. They illustrate the evolution of the Court’s tastes in the 18th and 19th centuries, a period that was marked by the baroque, rococo and neoclassicism.
Built in 1747 at the orders of the future King Pedro III, the consort of Queen Maria I, the Palace of Queluz was initially conceived as a summer residence, becoming the royal family’s preferred place for their leisure and entertainment. They lived there permanently from 1794 until their departure for Brazil in 1807, as a result of the French invasions. - in: https://www.parquesdesintra.pt/en/parks-and-monuments/national-palace-and-gardens-of-queluz/
© Instituto dos Museus e da Conservação, I. P. / Palácio Nacional de Queluz - Fotografia: Luís Pavão
Don Quixote Room is the most well known and ostentatious of the Palace rooms and where the majority of the children of King João VI and Queen Carlota Joaquina were born, including among whom Prince Pedro – future Emperor of Brazil and King of Portugal – who died here in 1834, the victim of tuberculosis, aged just thirty-nine. - in: https://www.parquesdesintra.pt/en/pontos-de-atracao/dom-quixote-room/
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