East Timor's Presidential Palace

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East Timor’s Presidential Palace (2018)

The East Timorese Presidential Palace is the official residence of the country's President . The building is officially called Palácio Presidente Nicolau Lobato after Nicolau dos Reis Lobato , the country's first Prime Minister and later President. Originally the building should be called "Palace of Hope" ( Portuguese Palácio de esperança ).

Buildings and furnishings

Today's Avenida Nicolau Lobato in February 2000 with Kampung Alor in the foreground with large open spaces. Today the presidential palace stands on the helipad in Bairro Pite
East Timor’s Presidential Palace (2014) still with a blue roof

The palace is located on Avenida Nicolau Lobato in Suco Bairro Pite in the state capital Dili , west of the city center. Previously, this was a helipad of the International Stabilization Forces and at the end of the Portuguese colonial era, Dilis Airport. The central area of ​​the palace with the E- shaped floor plan has a steeply rising slope that is based on the Timorese style. The initially blue roof has been dark brown since 2015 at the latest. A park surrounds the palace and there is a small helipad to the southeast. The building has the first elevator in the country.

In the entrance hall of the palace there is a dinosaur exhibition with the skeleton of a Tarbosaurus bataar , a relative of the Tyrannosaurus . The skeleton was excavated in Mongolia and is on loan from Monash University as an object for school children to see. It was originally part of a Monash University dinosaur exhibition in the old Dilis market building, which now serves as an exhibition center. The skeleton was then taken to the Presidential Palace at the suggestion of President José Ramos-Horta , where it is to remain until the National Museum of East Timor is completed. Often guests and new ambassadors are greeted in front of the dinosaur skeleton.

history

Cleaning work after the floods in Dili 2020

The foundation stone for the building was laid on July 2nd, 2007. The People's Republic of China took over the financing . The palace was completed in April 2009 and the inauguration took place on August 27, 2009. Previously, the Palácio das Cinzas served as the seat of the President. When the presidential palace was flooded with mud in February 2013, the Palácio de Lahane served as the temporary seat of the president. When there was another major flooding in Dili in March 2020, the presidential palace was also affected again.

gallery

Web links

Commons : Palácio Presidente Nicolau Lobato  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page of the President of East Timor ( Memento of May 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 22, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c ETAN : Timor-Leste to build Presidential Palace with Chinese fund , July 7, 2007, accessed May 22, 2013
  3. ↑ Jornal do Luxemburgo: 40 anos / Timor-Leste: A rádio que deu as primeiras informações da invasão indonésia , November 22, 2015 , accessed on November 23, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Radio Timor-Leste: PR TMR moves to Lahane because of flood , February 18, 2013
  5. ^ Dinosaurs in the Presidential Palace , accessed March 22, 2013
  6. ^ Monash University Youtube video: East Timor dinosaurs, August 4, 2009 , accessed March 22, 2013
  7. ↑ Picture from the greeting of the Special Envoy of North Korea on February 11, 2013. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 22, 2013
  8. ↑ RTP: Cheias em Díli provocaram pelo menos dois mortos e três feridos , March 2020 , accessed on March 15, 2020.

Coordinates: 8 ° 33 ′ 19.2 ″  S , 125 ° 33 ′ 47 ″  E