{"id":7053,"date":"2012-01-04T04:19:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T04:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portugalvia.com\/en\/?p=7053"},"modified":"2014-05-26T03:46:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T03:46:09","slug":"ducal-palace-of-vila-vicosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portugalvia.com\/en\/ducal-palace-of-vila-vicosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducal Palace of Vila Vi\u00e7osa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Ducal Palace of Vila Vi\u00e7osa it is an important monument located in the Palace Square of the city of Vila Vi\u00e7osa, having been for centuries the headquarters of the House of Braganza, an important noble family founded in 1401 by the King John I of Portugal and by the Constable D. Nuno Alvares Pereira, having became in the ruling house in Portugal, since the 1 St December, 1640, when D. Jo\u00e3o IV, the 8th Duke of Braganza, was acclaimed King of Portugal.<\/p>\n

Its construction began in 1501, by decision of then 4 th Duke of Braganza, D. Jaime, being from the same time, the cloister and the chapel area, as well as the existing rooms of the Armory. The decision of building of the Ducal Palace of Vila Vi\u00e7osa by D. Jaime, arisen because the same wanted to build for the House of Braganza, (which was already fixed in Vila Vi\u00e7osa since 1461, by decision of the 2 nd Duke of Braganza, D. Fernando), a new palace to replace the old Palace of the Castle.<\/p>\n

The decision was due to the fact that D. Jaime did not want to inhabit the palace of the Castle, by the same being connected to the memory of his father, D. Fernando II (3rd Duke of Braganza) that was executed in 1483 by order of the King John II, who accused him of treason, having the family of the House of Braganza, ran out of their possessions, which were attached to the property of the Crown, and exiled to Castile, from where returned in 1496, after the death of D. Jo\u00e3o II and with the return of the respective property, by the King D. Manuel I.<\/p>\n

In 1535, the first building of the Ducal Palace of Vila Vi\u00e7osa, built and decorated according to a Manueline taste, was remodelled by the 5th Duke of the House of Braganza, D. Teod\u00f3sio, in a project that also included the square border, as well as religious buildings adjacent, in a set thought as a whole.
\nThe Ducal Palace adopted then a classical language, evident in the carved facade with drawn windows to the ancient Roman way, in a model inspired by the Palace of Ribeira de Lisboa.<\/p>\n

Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was followed campaigns of enhancement and improvement of the Palace, giving to the building the dimension and the current characteristics, presenting the front with 110 meters long, unique in the Portuguese civil architecture and revealing its classical inspiration.<\/p>\n

At the end of the XVI TH century, the 7th Duke of Braganza D. Teod\u00f3sio II, fostered new enlargement works of the palace, by occasion of his marriage to D. Ana Velasco, having added a new body at south of the Old Palace, designated at the time as Cazas Novas.<\/p>\n

The work, led to a large building with a monumental fa\u00e7ade of Mannerist composed of two registers, a Tuscan order, and one of the Ionic order, to which was added a third floor in 1610.<\/p>\n

In 1640, with the ascension of the House of Braganza to the throne of Portugal, D. Jo\u00e3o IV, the Ducal Palace of Vila Vi\u00e7osa, became from permanent residence of the first noble national family, to one of the royal residences scattered by the kingdom.<\/p>\n

On the D. Jo\u00e3o V reign, in 1716, the respective monarch ordered the realization of new works on the palace, that however, wee only completed on the reign of King D. Jos\u00e9. (1750-1777).<\/p>\n

The Ducal Palace would come again golden moments, when the marriages of the children of D. Jo\u00e3o V (1689-1750) and D. Maria I (1734-1816) with the sons of the Spanish sovereigns, his contemporaries, known episodes by Exchange of Princesses. On the respective times, where made new campaigns of realization of works, which provided the Palace of visible improvements on the noble floor, in the kitchen and in the Chapel.<\/p>\n

On the 19 Th Century, the then sporadic visits of the royal family became frequent, having the Ducal Palace being arranged successively on the reigns of King Luis (1861-1889) and of D. Carlos (1889-1908), with the objective of receiving with more comfort to the royal family and its large entourage during their annual excursions.<\/p>\n

After the proclamation of the Republic, in 1910, the Ducal Palace of Vila Vi\u00e7osa, as well all property of the House of Braganza, remained in the possession of the King Manuel II (the last king of Portugal), by being the King’s household goods and not of the state.<\/p>\n

With the implantation of the Republic, the Ducal Palace of Vila Vi\u00e7osa was closed, having been later reopened to the public in the decade of forty as a museum, after the creation of the Foundation of the House of Braganza in 1933, where was integrated by the will expressed in the Testament of D. Manuel II, died in England, in 1932.<\/p>\n

At the time, the Palace also received big part of the movable property, works of art and the library of King exiled, from his home, on outside of London.<\/p>\n

On the noble floor of the Ducal Palace, are concentrated the collections of decorative arts, which includes collections of paintings, sculpture, furniture, tapestries, ceramics and jewellery. The pieces are valued by the great space that includes fresh and seventeenth-century tiles, ceilings in and painted, marble fireplaces with elaborate decorative programs. The kitchen where is finished the visit, presents gig dimensions displays and a large amount of copper utensils.<\/p>\n

Over the last years, has been run an intensive program of active and preventive conservation of the musicological space of the Ducal Palace and a great strengthening of the collections through the acquisition of parts of unquestionable artistic value and the restoration of others that were in the Reserves. The dimension of the collections which lodges justified the unfolding of the nuclei and the option of thematic visits.<\/p>\n

The Ducal Palace of Vila Vi\u00e7osa, has currently four musicological museums of exceptional interest, that are, the Armory, the Treasury, the coaches and the blue and white porcelain from China.<\/p>\n

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The Ducal Palace of Vila Vi\u00e7osa it is an important monument located in the Palace Square of the city of Vila Vi\u00e7osa, having been for centuries the headquarters of the House of Braganza, an important noble family founded in 1401 by the King John I of Portugal and by the Constable D. Nuno Alvares Pereira, having became in the ruling house in Portugal, since the 1 St December, 1640, when D. Jo\u00e3o IV, the 8th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evora","category-interest-points-evora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portugalvia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portugalvia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portugalvia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portugalvia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portugalvia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7053"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.portugalvia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11332,"href":"https:\/\/www.portugalvia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions\/11332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portugalvia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portugalvia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portugalvia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}