Historic site · Queluz, Sintra, Lisbon Region
National Palace of Queluz
Palácio Nacional de Queluz
The National Palace of Queluz is a former royal palace with formal gardens at Queluz, in the municipality of Sintra, run by Parques de Sintra.
Why go
Parques de Sintra's history page says the Queluz country house passed to the Casa do Infantado in 1654, that Prince Pedro, the future Pedro III, had it enlarged from 1747 and, after his marriage to the future Queen Maria I was announced in 1760, turned into a royal palace, and that after the 1794 fire at Ajuda it became the official residence of Maria I and then of the Prince Regent João. The same page says the palace was classified a National Monument in 1910, that the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art has had its headquarters in the gardens since 1979, and that Parques de Sintra took over its management in 2012. The operator sells a Palace and Gardens ticket and a separate Gardens-only ticket; this record covers the palace and its gardens as one place. Wikidata places the palace in the parish of Queluz e Belas, in the municipality of Sintra; it is not in Lisbon municipality or in the town of Sintra.
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