Palácio Nacional da Ajuda
Neoclassical royal palace, forever half-built, whose interiors were shaped by a queen from Italy.
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This guide to Palácio Nacional da Ajuda in Lisbon starts with the door in front of you, built as a side entrance for a grand river-facing facade that was never finished. It traces construction from 1796 through the royal family's fourteen years in exile in Brazil after Napoleon's invasion, to 1862, when King Luís I moved in with his young wife Maria Pia and began shaping the palace's interiors room by room. Look for the Blue Room draped in silk and the Green Room where their son was born.
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