Palácio de Lahane
The Palácio de Lahane ( Lahane Palace ), also Palácio das Nobres ( German noble palace ), was formerly the residence of the Portuguese governor of Portuguese Timor . He is in the Suco Lahane Oriental ( Nain Feto administrative office , Dili municipality ).
Overview
Governor Afonso de Castro (1859 to 1861 and 1862 to 1863) had the residence built in Lahane in 1860, one and a half kilometers south of the city center of the colonial capital Dili in the mountains, as the lowlands on the bay were considered to be malaria- infested . The offices were in the center of Dilis in the Palácio das Repartições .
The residence is now a one-story, pink building with octagonal towers at each of the four corners. The building has been restored after it was burned down in the last wave of violence by the Indonesian occupation, around the independence referendum in East Timor in 1999 . At that time only the walls remained. The restoration has been criticized in part. The pink color is not unaesthetic, but the original color was gray. The interior walls were also removed to create a ballroom for formal occasions. A terrace was attached at the rear and a cellar was built. The footpath, which is paved in Portuguese style, is also criticized, because there was no such thing in colonial times. The construction of the fourth tower, which, viewed from the entrance, was missing in the rear left of the original, compliments the symmetry. The pointed roofs of the towers did not exist in the past either, at least they cannot be seen in a 1954 film.
When the presidential palace was flooded with mud in February 2013 , the Palácio de Lahane served as the temporary office of the president.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ History of Timor - Technical University of Lisbon ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 824 kB)
- ↑ Livro das contra disoens
- ^ Radio Timor-Leste: PR TMR moves to Lahane because of flood , February 18, 2013
Coordinates: 8 ° 34 ′ 27.5 ″ S , 125 ° 35 ′ 4 ″ E