Paço da Ribeira
The Paço da Ribeira ( dt. Palace on the banks ) was the royal city palace ( port. Paço ), which was located on the bank ( port. Ribeira ) of the Tejo in the Portuguese capital Lisbon . Under Manuel I , it was built in the Manueline style between 1500 and 1511 .
After the Avis family had died out , Philip II , husband of Maria of Portugal , received a Spanish inheritance claim to the Kingdom of Portugal . In 1580 he had the building redesigned in the mannerist style based on designs by Filippo Terzi .
The royal library ( Biblioteca Real , today Biblioteca da Ajuda ) with over 70,000 books and paintings by Titian , Rubens and Correggio were located in the Royal City Palace. In 1755 the devastating earthquake in Lisbon destroyed the city palace. In its place is now the Praça do Comércio ( Eng. Place of Commerce ).
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ José-Augusto França: Lisboa: Arquitectura e Urbanismo. Biblioteca Breve, Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa (ICALP), 1980. (Portuguese)
Coordinates: 38 ° 42 ′ 27.5 " N , 9 ° 8 ′ 11.3" W.