palace Archives - Portugal Confidential https://portugalconfidential.com/tag/palace/ Travel & Lifestyle Fri, 07 Jun 2024 10:57:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://portugalconfidential.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-LinkedIN-PC-T_L-Lauch-Profile-Photo-400x400-1-32x32.jpg palace Archives - Portugal Confidential https://portugalconfidential.com/tag/palace/ 32 32 Own a Palace in Sintra for a Day https://portugalconfidential.com/seteais-palace-sintra-portugal/ https://portugalconfidential.com/seteais-palace-sintra-portugal/#respond Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:55:07 +0000 https://portugalconfidential.com/?p=33832 Sintra, the small hilltop village between Lisbon and the Atlantic, is where Portuguese royalty and social elite would spend their summers. Palaces were built, in order to take advantage of the picturesque landscape. Now you can stay like royalty when you Own a Palace for a Day at Seteais Palace Sintra Portugal. Palácio de Seteais was built between 1783 and 1787 as a residence for Dutch consul Daniel Gildmeester on lands granted by the Marquis de Pombal. After his death […]

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]]> https://portugalconfidential.com/seteais-palace-sintra-portugal/feed/ 0 Pena Palace (Palácio Nacional da Pena) in Sintra https://portugalconfidential.com/pena-palace-palacio-nacional-da-pena-sintra/ https://portugalconfidential.com/pena-palace-palacio-nacional-da-pena-sintra/#respond Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:50:35 +0000 https://portugalconfidential.com/?p=33341 Pena Palace (Palácio Nacional da Pena) is the most complete and notable example of Portuguese Romantic architecture. Originally the palace was the former Hieronymus Monastery of Our Lady of Pena, built by King Manuel 1 for the Order of St. Jerome in 1503. After the earthquake of 1755, the monastery fell into decline. The Order left the monastery. However, in 1839, King Consort Dom Fernando II of Saxe Coburg-Gotha (1816-1885) bought the ruins, restored the monastery, chapels and cloisters, and […]

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