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The Pena Palace (Portuguese: Palácio da Pena) is a Romanticist castle in São Pedro de Penaferrim, in the municipality of Sintra, on the Portuguese Riviera.The castle stands on the top of a hill in the Sintra Mountains above the town of Sintra, and on a clear day it can be easily seen from Lisbon and much of its metropolitan area.
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 ...
It now forms part of the park surrounding the Pena Palace. Among the 200 botanical species are camellias, rhododendrons, azaleas and a large collection of ferns from Australia and New Zealand. Trees were introduced from North America, with the assistance of John Slade, an American forester who was Elise's brother-in-law.
SINTRA, Portugal (AP) — The doorbell to Martinho de Almada Pimentel’s house is hard to find, and he likes it that way. ... Pena Palace, for example, began this year to permit less than half ...
Following the destruction of the Palace of Ajuda by fire in 1794, Queluz Palace became the official residence of the Portuguese Prince Regent John, and his family, and remained so until the royal family fled to the Portuguese colony of Brazil following the French invasion of Portugal (1807). [2] Work on the palace began in 1747 under Portuguese ...
The first recognized Neo-Manueline architectural works were done between 1839 and 1849 with the building of Pena National Palace, in Sintra, by King Ferdinand II of Portugal. A romanticist palace fusing Neo-Manueline, Neo-Mudéjar, and Portuguese Renaissance characteristics, Pena Palace's large Neo-Manueline Window is a 19th-century adaptation ...
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Pena Palace, São Pedro de Penaferrim, Sintra (Santa Maria e São Miguel, São Martinho e São Pedro de Penaferrim), Sintra, Lisbon, Portugal Q69513, ISNI: 0000000122039705, VIAF cluster ID: 168487002, GND ID: 4271872-7, Library of Congress authority ID: nr94002948, Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12187033x, IdRef ID: 029346096, NL CR AUT ID: ko20201094021, SIPA ID: 6134, DGPC ID: 69855 ...