Monuments in Queluz – Transfers in Lisbon

Palace of Queluz history

The Palace of Queluz and its gardens are, in Portugal, one of the most beautiful examples of the style of construction used by the nobility in the 18th and 19th centuries. These were centuries in which the architectural styles were Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassicism.

Ordered to be built in 1747 by the future King Pedro 3rd, king consort of Queen Maria 1st (mother of Dom Pedro and Dom Miguel), the Palace of Queluz was built to be the summer residence of the Royal Family, which inhabited it from 1794 until the departure for Brazil, in 1807, following Napoleon’s invasions of Portugal.
The Palace still has several pieces of furniture used by royalty throughout the ages. The room where Dom Pedro 4th was born and died is almost as it was then.
A charming stroll through the gardens, the water channel, where Queen Carlota Joaquina, use to took the princes, Pedro and Miguel, in a small boat. The tiles, the shapes of the flowerbeds, the stones, everything heightens our senses.

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Pousada of Queluz history

A historic Hotel, the Pousada Palácio de Queluz, also called Pousada Dona Maria I, is located in the Clock Tower building, next to Queluz National Palace. The town of Queluz is close to the beaches of Cascais, the Sintra mountain range, the golf courses and 14 km from Lisbon.
In the second half of the 18th century, one of the last phases of the Royal Palace of Queluz, during the reign of D. Maria I, was built, in front of the palace, but being part of the same architectural complex, the clock tower as well as the annex building for the royal guard, the administration house and the stables.
The layout of the construction is attributed to Manuel Caetano de Sousa, considered by many like the last representative of the baroque national delay, that happened to the architects of the palace, Mateus Vicente and Jean Baptiste Robillion.
Attached to the clock tower, which has three plans and two registers, the first with a clock and the second with the bells topped by a bulbous dome, a building is developed in whose main façade there are windows and doors of cut pediment.
In the 1990s, the construction of the Pousada was carried out, and the original façade was completely retained and the interior was deeply reformulated to meet the new needs. The Pousada was inaugurated in 1995.