Palace of Queluz (prt)

Palace of Queluz

Palace of Queluz ranks 2,308th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Hagi, Yamaguchi, and Port Said. Memorable people born in Palace of Queluz include Pedro I of Brazil, John VI of Portugal, and Maria Isabel of Braganza. Memorable people who died in Palace of Queluz include Pedro I of Brazil, and Carlota Joaquina of Spain. Palace of Queluz has been the birth place of many politicians, and companions and the death place of many politicians, and noblemen. Palace of Queluz is located in Portugal.

The Palace of Queluz 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, the palace was conceived as a summer retreat for King Joseph I's brother, Peter of Braganza, later to become husband and king jure uxoris to his own niece, Queen Maria I. It eventually served as a discreet place of incarceration for Maria I, when she became afflicted by severe mental illness in the years following Peter III's death in 1786. Following the destruction of the Palace of Ajuda by fire in 1794, Queluz Palace became the official residence of the Portuguese Prince Regent John, and his family, and remained so until the royal family fled to the Portuguese colony of Brazil, following the French invasion of Portugal (1807). Read more on Wikipedia