• Queluz National Palace

Palacio de Queluz is an 18th-century palace located at Queluz, part of the Sintra Municipality 16 km southeast of the town center, is a Rococo palatial complex used in the early 19th century as the official residence of the Portuguese Prince Regent John and his family. The palace was heavily restored and renovated by the state in the 20th century, with the Queen Maria I Pavilion currently used as Portugal’s official state guest house. The palace exterior and the richly decorated interior somehow reminds the French Versailles Palace.
Admire the highly decorated Baroque and Rococo architecture with the windows carvings, the statues, the Doric colonnade, and the internal courtyard with the “hanging garden”. Inside the Palace visit the numerous state and private apartments and the ceremonial grand halls all richly decorated in Baroque and Rococo styles. Enjoy the painted and frescoed ceilings and walls, the polychrome azulejo glazed tiles, the gilded wood panels, and much more. In the palace rooms and halls numerous artworks and period furniture part of the former royal collection.
The Queluz Palace is known for its glorious gardens home to beautiful plants, flowers, and formal terraces, a canal covered with tiles panels, a garden temple, fountains, statues and sculptures, and a grotto with cascading waterfall.

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Tourist admires Rococo-style hall of the Queluz Palace, former residence of the royal family and tourist attraction on the outskirts of Lisbon, Portugal

Hall of Ambassadors at Queluz Palace in Lisbon, Portugal