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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.
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 ...
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.
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The palace's public face to the town: the entrance from the cour d'honneur. Architecturally the most severe of the palace's many façades, it gives no hint of the architectural excesses beyond (see key 2). Robillon's entrance is reached by flights of ingeniously designed steps adorned with statuary that employ forced perspective (see key 11).
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The "Ceremonial Façade" of the Palace of Queluz by Mateus Vicente de Oliveira. Mateus Vicente de Oliveira (1706–1786) was a Portuguese architect. He studied under the architects João Frederico Ludovice and Jean Baptiste Robillon [1] during the construction of the royal palace at Mafra – Portugal's attempt to rival the Spanish king's palace at Escorial.