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Must See
1 The ornate palace
façade overlooks
the spectacular
Neptune's Fountain.
2 The formal gardens,
adorned with statues,
fountains and topiary, were
often used for entertaining.
3 The Sala dos Embaixadores
was a stately room built
by Robillon and used for
both diplomatic audiences
and concerts. 1 2

The royal family’s living Chapel
rooms and bedrooms,
which opened out onto
the Malta Gardens
Neptune's
Fountain
3
Music room, where Maria I’s
orchestra performed
operas and concerts

Entrance

Throne room

The palace and its
carefully arranged
formal gardens

Malta Gardens

MARIA I (1734–1816)
Maria, the eldest daughter of José I, lived
at Queluz palace after her marriage to her
uncle, Pedro. Serious and devout, Maria
was a conscientious queen, but suffered
increasingly from bouts of melancholia.
When her son José died from smallpox in
1788, she went hope lessly mad. Visitors
The Hanging Gardens, to Queluz were dismayed by her agoniz­
elaborately designed ing shrieks as she suffered visions and
by Robillion and built hallucin ations. After the 1807 invasion,
over arches her younger son João took Maria to Brazil.

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