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A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor in Europe. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets.
The Palace of Beau-Séjour (Portuguese: Palácio do Beau-Séjour) is a 19th-century Portuguese manor house situated in the civil parish of São Domingos de Benfica, municipality of Lisbon. History [ edit ]
Quinta da Regaleira [ˈkĩtɐ ðɐ ˈʁɨɣɐlɐjɾɐ] is a quinta (manor house) located near the historic centre of Sintra, Portugal.It is classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO within the "Cultural Landscape of Sintra".
Atrium of the MNAA annex hall. Portuguese Renaissance paintings.. The government formally purchased the Janelas Verdes palace in June, 1884, and recast it as the Museu Nacional de Belas-Artes e Arqueologia ("National Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology"), formally founded on 11 May 1884, to house what where then known as the "Museus Centrais" of the State and placed it under the management of ...
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The oldest known book on Portuguese cuisine (Portuguese: Cozinha portuguesa), entitled Livro de Cozinha da Infanta D. Maria de Portugal, from the 16th century, describes many popular dishes of meat, fish, poultry and others. [1] Culinária Portuguesa, by António-Maria De Oliveira Bello, better known as Olleboma, was published in 1936. [2]
Members of the Noronha family originally settled in Terceira, sometime in the 16th century, in the form of D. Luísa de Noronha. Daughter of Pedro Ponce Leão (a member of the Royal Household and aid to Queen Catherine) and D. Helena de Noronha, D. Luísa had her home in the town of Angra, in the heights of Rua do Gallo (today Rua de D. Amélia), today the location of the Palacete Silveira e ...