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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.
Mateus Palace: Vila Real, Portugal 1739–1743 Nicolau Nasoni: Royal Palace of Madrid: Madrid, Spain 1738–1755 Filippo Juvarra, Juan Bautista Sacchetti and Ventura Rodríguez. St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery: Kyiv, Ukraine ca. 1746 Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi and others Queluz Palace: Sintra, Portugal 1747–1758 Mateus Vicente de Oliveira
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 ...
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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 .
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 Mafra National Palace is among the most sumptuous Baroque buildings in Portugal. This monumental palace-monastery-church complex is even larger than the El Escorial , an immense 16th-century Spanish royal palace north of Madrid to emphasize the symbolic affirmation of his power.