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Century 21 Real Estate LLC is an American real estate agent franchise company founded in 1971. The system consists of approximately 14,000 independently owned and operated franchised broker offices in 86 countries and territories worldwide with over 147,000 sales professionals. [2] Century 21 Real Estate is headquartered in Madison, New Jersey.
He married his niece Luísa Paula Mouzinho de Albuquerque (Cabanas Estate, São Brás da Romeira, Santarém, 4 January 1820 [1] – at her old house at the Violeiros Street, Portalegre, 17 January 1907) and had an only son: Pedro Mouzinho de Albuquerque, who died young, unmarried and without issue
Belém Tower (Portuguese: Torre de Belém, pronounced [ˈtoʁɨ ðɨ βɨˈlɐ̃j]; literally: Bethlehem Tower), officially the Tower of Saint Vincent (Portuguese: Torre de São Vicente) is a 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon that served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon.
The Rua Augusta Arch (Portuguese: Arco da Rua Augusta) is a stone, memorial arch -like, historical building and visitor attraction in Lisbon, Portugal, on the Praça do Comércio. It was built to commemorate the city's reconstruction after the 1755 earthquake. It has six columns (some 11 m high) and is adorned with statues of various historical ...
The history of the county is traditionally dated from the reconquest in 868 by Vímara Peres of the city of Portucale (Porto), which was the port of Cale, the present Gaia. Although the county had its seat at Guimarães, the economic strength that enabled its autonomy was based in Portucale.
38°44′48.04″N 9°10′58.01″W / 38.7466778°N 9.1827806°W / 38.7466778; -9.1827806. Opened. 1849. Owner. Portuguese Republic. Technical details. Material. Mixed masonry. 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 ...
The Palace of Queluz (Portuguese: Palácio de Queluz, Portuguese pronunciation: [kɛˈluʃ]) is an 18th-century palace located at Queluz, a city of the Sintra Municipality, in the Lisbon District, on the Portuguese Riviera. One of the last great Rococo buildings to be designed in Europe, [1] the palace was conceived as a summer retreat for King ...
The main entrance to the citadel is a 19th-century gate surmounted by the coat-of-arms of Portugal, the name of Queen Maria II, and the date 1846. This gate permits access to the main square ( Praça d'Armas ), which is decorated with old cannons and a bronze statue of Afonso Henriques , the Portuguese monarch who took the castle from the Moors.