Built by Dom Jaime in the early 16th century. It first served as a permanent residence for the Bragança family but later it was primeraly used as an eleboratly decorated hunting lodge.

In the monastry next to it several smaller museums are housed, seperate admission fees.

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Really nice building holding some rather nice pieces of furniture and decoration as well as drawings and paintings from the different members of the Bragança family. Apparently they were all very artistic, it even seemed a requirement to marry a Bragança. You can only visit the palace as part of the tour which can be very interesting if you can speak Portugese. My guide was not that brilliant, he seemed more interested in numbers and facts than the stories behind it. Which according to me is not the reason why there is a guide. Still it is an impressive building, the giant square (16.000m²) in front of it is even more so.

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