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Palácio Real de Queluz Traditional Geocache

This cache has been archived.

garri: As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm temporarily archiving this to keep it from continually showing up in search lists. Just contact us when you have the cache repaired, and assuming it still meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

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Hidden : 1/16/2007
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   not chosen (not chosen)

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WELCOME TO QUELUZ

Iniciado no ano de 1747 pelo infante D. Pedro, futuro D. Pedro III, a partir de um antigo palácio rural dos Marqueses de Castelo Rodrigo, o Palácio de Queluz, classificado como Monumento Nacional, começou então a ser adaptado a residência de veraneio da familia real.

O corpo principal do Palácio, erigido até 1758, com as suas formas baixas e serpenteadas, decoração harmoniosa e intimista, foi completado após o casamento do Infante D. Pedro com D. Maria Francisca, a futura rainha D. Maria I (1760), altura em que os opulentos salões do interior foram enobrecidos, e bem assim os ricos jardins palacianos, povoados de fontenários barrocos, de estátuas e de recantos para folguedo. Nesta campanha interveio o grande mestre francês Jean Baptiste Rotillion (falecido em 1782), a quem se deve o célebre «PaviIhão Robillion».

Queluz, que tem sido não poucas vezes comparado com o Palácio de Versailles, difere do conjunto de Luis XIV (aliás um pouco anterior) no sentido de escala e de proporções que a sua traça revela, quiça com uma distribuição de valores gráficos mais equilibrada, dentro de um neo-classicismo ainda muito apegado ao formulário rococó. Apenas a força e exuberância do Pavilhão concebido por Robillion de fortes influências europeias francesas, austríacas - constitui nota mais avantajada e «evoluída» pois tudo o resto é bem português, nas escalas e no próprio espirito artístico.

Begun in 1747 by the Infante Dom Pedro (later to become Dom Pedro III) on the basis of a former country mansion of the Marquises of Castelo Rodrigo, Queluz Palace (classified as a National Monument) at that time began to be adapted for use as a summer seat of the Royal Family.

The main body of the Palace, erected by 1758, with its low sinuous forms and harmonious intimist decoration, was completed after the marriage of the Infante Dom Pedro to Dona Maria Francisca, the future Dona Maria I (1760), at which time the opulent interior halls were embellished, as were the luxurious Palace gardens, which were endowed with Baroque fountains, statues and places for recreation. An important part in these improvements was taken by the great French architect Robillion (died 1782), who was responsible for the well known "Robillion Pavilion".


Queluz, which has not infrequently been compared with Versailles Palace, differs from Louis XIV's edifice (in fact of earlier date) in the sense of scale and proportions revealed in its lines, perhaps with a more balanced distribution of graphic values, within a neo-classicism as yet not bound to the rococo formulae. Only the force and exuberance of the pavilion conceived by Robillion, with its strong French and Austrian influence, strikes a more "evolved" note, for all the rest is thoroughly Portuguese, its scale and in the artistic spirit itse.

A cache encontra-se fora do Palácio, lamentavelmente o container não permite troca de objectos

A Vida desta cache depende da sua discrição,P.favor deixe a cache como a encontrou,Deixo a sugestão de tentarem encontrar a cache á noite.

Obrigado


This cache is located outside the Palace, and is a no trading cache.

Thanks.

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