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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.
Pfaueninsel Palace – former palace of Frederick William II of Prussia; Prinzessinnenpalais – built for the princesses of the House of Hohenzollern; Reich Chancellery – former seat of the chancellor of Germany (building demolished) Reichspräsidentenpalais - seat of the president of Germany during the Weimar Republic (building demolished)
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
These buildings, some of which have a history of over 1000 years, were the setting of historical events and the domains of famous personalities; and many still are imposing edifices to this day. This list encompasses buildings variously described in German as Burg ( castle ), Festung ( fort / fortress ), Schloss ( manor house , palace or ...
The palace complex is entered through the symmetrical Gatehouse flanked by two stair towers. The eastward-pointing gate building is the only structure of the palace whose wall area is fashioned in high-contrast colours; the exterior walls are cased with red bricks, the court fronts with yellow limestone. The roof cornice is surrounded by pinnacles.
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 .
It evolved from Romanesque architecture. The first Gothic buildings in Germany were built from about 1230, for example the Liebfrauenkirche (German for Church of Our dear Lady) ca. 1233–1283 in Trier, which is one of the most important early Gothic cathedrals in Germany and falls into the architectural tradition of the French Gothic.
Herrenchiemsee is a complex of royal buildings on Herreninsel, the largest island in the Chiemsee lake, in southern Bavaria, Germany. Together with the neighbouring isle of Frauenchiemsee and the uninhabited Krautinsel, it forms the municipality of Chiemsee , located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) southeast of Munich .