Palace of Ajuda (prt)

Palace of Ajuda

Palace of Ajuda ranks 5,511th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Beaver, Utah, Ilmenau, and Sankt Veit an der Glan. Memorable people born in Palace of Ajuda include Carlos I of Portugal, José, Prince of Brazil, and Afonso, Duke of Porto. Memorable people who died in Palace of Ajuda include Mariana Victoria of Spain. Palace of Ajuda has been the birth place of many noblemen, and politicians and the death place of many noblemen. Palace of Ajuda is located in Portugal.

The Palace of Ajuda is a neoclassical monument in the civil parish of Ajuda in the city of Lisbon, central Portugal. Built on the site of a temporary wooden building constructed to house the royal family after the 1755 earthquake and tsunami, it was originally begun by architect Manuel Caetano de Sousa, who planned a late Baroque-Rococo building. Later, it was entrusted to José da Costa e Silva and Francisco Xavier Fabri, who planned a magnificent building in the neoclassical style. Read more on Wikipedia