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Practical Information
Largo do Palácio, Queluz.
Music Room Tel 219 237 300.
Operas and concerts ∑ parquesdesintra.pt
were performed here Open late Mar–late Oct:
by Maria I’s orchestra, “the 9am–7pm daily (last adm: 1 hr
best in Europe” according before closing); late Oct–late Mar:
to English traveller William 9am–5:30pm daily (last adm: 30
Beckford. A portrait of the mins before closing). Closed
queen hangs above 1 Jan, 25 Dec. & (check website
the fortepiano. for details of combined tickets).
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Transport
@ from Lisbon (Colégio
Militar). £ Queluz-Belas or
Queluz-Massama.

Entrance

. Throne Room
The elegant state room
(1770) was the scene of
splendid balls and banquets.
The gilded statues of Atlas
are by Silvestre Faria Lobo.

Maria I (1734–1816)
Maria, the eldest daughter of José I, lived
at the palace in Queluz after her marriage
to her uncle, Pedro, in 1760. Serious and
devout, she conscientiously filled her role as
queen, but suffered increasingly from bouts
of melancholia. When her son José died
from smallpox in 1788, she went hopelessly
mad. Visitors to Queluz were dismayed by . Palace Gardens
her agonizing shrieks as she suffered visions The formal gardens, adorned with
and hallucinations. After the French invasion of statues, fountains and topiary, were
1807, her younger son João (declared regent in 1792) often used for entertaining. Concerts
took his mad mother to Brazil. performed in the Music Room would
spill out into the Malta Gardens.

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