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colourful majolica reliefs (Costume Museum) has a
INSIDER TIP adorn the arcades. More blue vast collection of textiles,
Catch a Match and white tiled scenes, accessories and costumes
Benfica, one of Europe’s realistic and allegorical, worn by people of note.
leading football clubs, decorate the wall at the far The Museu Nacional do
play their home games end of the garden. Teatro has two buildings, one
in a stadium just 30 devoted to temporary exhibi­
minutes’ walk from tions, the other containing a
the Palácio Fronteira. small perm anent collection.
Fans can buy tickets 18 " Photographs, posters and
directly from the Parque do cartoons feature famous
stadium or online. Monteiro-Mor 20th­century Portuguese
actors and one section is
⌂ Largo Júlio Castilho § 217
567 620 @ 703, 736, 796 devoted to Amália Rodrigues,
palace and then smashed to q Lumiar # Park: 2–6pm the famous fado singer (p36).
ensure no one else could sup Tue, 10am–10pm Wed–Sun
off the same set. Visits to the Museu Nacional do Traje
garden start at the chapel Monteiro­Mor park was sold " # 2–6pm Tue, 10am–
terrace, where tiled niches to the state in 1975 and the 6pm Wed–Sun ∑ museu
are decorated with figures 18th­century palace buildings dotraje.gov.pt
personifying the arts and were converted to museums.
mythological creatures. The gardens are attractive; Museu Nacional do Teatro
In the formal Italian garden much of the land is wooded, " # 10am–6pm Tue–Sun
the immaculate box hedges though the area around the ¢ 1 Jan, Easter, 1 May,
are cut into shapes to represent museums has gardens with 25 Dec ∑ museudoteatro
the seasons of the year. To one flowering shrubs, duck ponds edanca.gov.pt
end, tiled scenes of dashing and tropical trees.
knights on horse back, repre­ The slightly old­fashioned
senting ancestors of the Museu Nacional do Traje
Fronteira family, are reflected
in the waters of a large tank.
On either side of the water, a Tiled terrace,
grand staircase leads to a decorated with
terrace above. Here, decorative figures (inset), leading
niches contain the busts of to the chapel of the
Portuguese kings and Palácio Fronteira

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