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Sao Bento Palace

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Sao Bento Palace in the Estrela district of Lisbon is the seat of the Assembly of the Republic, the parliament of Portugal, and also holds the official residence of the Prime Minister within its grounds. Building began in 1598 as a Benedictine monastery in the Mannerist style, with a church, four cloisters and monastic quarters, and the complex was converted for parliamentary use after Portugal dissolved its religious orders in 1834. Architects Adolfo Marques da Silva and Cristino da Silva reshaped it for legislative use, giving the building its present Neoclassical portico of columns beneath a triangular pediment; after a fire in 1895, architect Miguel Ventura Terra redesigned major sections and created a new lower house chamber, inaugurated in 1903. The palace was declared a National Monument in 2002.

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Palace 2
Location
Lapa, Lisbon, Portugal 1
Completed Year
1938 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Palace 2
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Palace, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Neoclassical Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Sao Bento Palace - Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Portugal, located there.
Sources
1. Sao Bento Palace - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, location
    Lapa, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Infobox, completion_date
    1938
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Sao Bento Palace in the Estrela district of Lisbon is the seat of the Assembly of the Republic, the parliament of Portugal, and also holds the official residence of the Prime Minister within its grounds. Building began in 1598 as a Benedictine monastery in the Mannerist style, with a church, four cloisters and monastic quarters, and the complex was converted for parliamentary use after Portugal dissolved its religious orders in 1834. Architects Adolfo Marques da Silva and Cristino da Silva reshaped it for legislative use, giving the building its present Neoclassical portico of columns beneath a triangular pediment; after a fire in 1895, architect Miguel Ventura Terra redesigned major sections and created a new lower house chamber, inaugurated in 1903. The palace was declared a National Monument in 2002.
  • In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Neoclassical
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2. Sao Bento Palace (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Palace)
Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Palace)
Wikidata item Q1464499, instance of (P31): palace
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