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The Mateus Palace (Portuguese: Palácio de Mateus, Solar de Mateus or Casa de Mateus) is a palace located in the civil parish of Mateus, municipality of Vila Real, Portugal. The three primary buildings are the manor, the winery and the chapel. The winery buildings date from the 16th century and were modified in the 1800s.
Palazzo Braschi – Last palace committed in Rome by the Pope for their families; Palazzo della Cancelleria – Former papal palace; Palazzo Carpegna; Palazzo Chigi – Seat of the Italian Cabinet; residence of the prime minister of Italy; Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana – Also known as 'Square Colosseum', in the EUR district; Palazzo Colonna
Baroque architecture is a building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy and spread in Europe. The style took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state in defiance of the Reformation .
Rome, Italy 1732–1762 Nicola Salvi: The High Street screen of Queen's College: Oxford, England 1733–1736 Nicholas Hawksmoor: Church of St. John's: Vilnius, Lithuania 1738–1748 Johann Christoph Glaubitz: Mateus Palace: Vila Real, Portugal 1739–1743 Nicolau Nasoni: Royal Palace of Madrid: Madrid, Spain 1738–1755
Vila Real (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvilɐ ʁiˈal] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the Vila Real District, in the North region, Portugal.It is also the seat of the Douro intermunicipal community and of the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro historical province.
The Royal Palace of Caserta (Italian: Reggia di Caserta [ˈrɛddʒa di kaˈzɛrta,-kaˈsɛrta]; Neapolitan: Reggia 'e Caserta [ˈrɛdːʒ(ə) e kaˈsertə]) is a former royal residence in Caserta, Campania, 35km north of Naples in southern Italy, constructed by the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies as their main residence as kings of Naples.
Ajuda National Palace. Queluz National Palace. Ajuda National Palace – former royal palace [1] Beau-Séjour Palace; Belém Palace – former royal palace; seat of the president of Portugal [2] Bemposta Palace – former royal palace; Burnay Palace; Correio-Mor Palace – former seat of the High-Couriers of the Kingdom; Estaus Palace; Feu ...
Palazzo del Te was constructed 1524–34 for Federico II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, as a palace of leisure.The site chosen was that of the family stables which he had built at Isola del Te, on the edge of the marshes just outside Mantua's city walls, as early as in 1502.