Queluz ( Portuguese pronunciation: [kɛˈluʃ] ) is a city within the Sintra Municipality , on the Portuguese Riviera , in the Lisbon metropolitan area of Portugal . It is famed as the home of Queluz National Palace , the 18th century pleasure palace of the Portuguese Royal Family , as well as notable institutions like the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art . Queluz had a population 78,273 inhabitants in 2001.
21-422: Queluz may refer to: Portugal [ edit ] Queluz, Portugal , a city in the municipality of Sintra, Portugal Queluz (Sintra) , one of the civil parishes in the city of Queluz The Queluz National Palace , located in the city Brazil [ edit ] Queluz, São Paulo , a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil Conselheiro Lafaiete ,
42-676: A monarch is disputed. The House of Aviz , known as the Joanine Dynasty , succeeded the House of Burgundy as the reigning house of the Kingdom of Portugal. The house was founded by John I of Portugal, who was the Grand Master of the Order of Aviz . When King John II of Portugal died without an heir, the throne of Portugal passed to his cousin, Manuel, Duke of Beja . When King Sebastian of Portugal died,
63-503: A monarchy, the kings held various other titles and pretensions . Two kings of Portugal, Ferdinand I and Afonso V , claimed the crown of Castile and waged wars in order to enforce their respective claims. Ferdinand I managed to be recognized as King of Galiza in 1369, although his dominance of the region was short-lived. When the House of Habsburg came into power, the kings of Spain , Naples , and Sicily also became kings of Portugal. The House of Braganza brought numerous titles to
84-574: A month before destruction. With Manuel II's death, the Miguelist branch of the house of Braganza became the pretenders to the throne of Portugal. They have all been acclaimed king of Portugal by their monarchist groups. The monarchs of Portugal all came from a single ancestor, Afonso I of Portugal , but direct lines have sometimes ended. This has led to a variety of royal houses coming to rule Portugal, though all having Portuguese royal lineage. These houses are: The Portuguese House of Burgundy , known as
105-551: A municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, previously known as Queluz Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Queluz . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Queluz&oldid=895794637 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
126-605: Is athletics. Real Sport Clube plays on the Segunda Liga (the 2nd biggest league competition in Portugal). CA Queluz has already been Portuguese basketball champions in 1984 and 2005. They also won the Portuguese Cup in 1983 and 2005, completing the double. JOMA as already been Portuguese champions on both individual and collective athletics competitions. Crossed by Jamor river, the city is interspersed by various parks, with three in
147-519: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Queluz, Portugal The origin of the name Queluz has been disputed over time. The prevailing thesis, by David Lim and José Pedro Machado, suggests that the name had its origin in the Arabic terms câ (for tight valley ) and Llûs (meaning almond ), affirming the suggestion that it was in The Valley of
168-636: The Afonsine Dynasty , was the founding house of the Kingdom of Portugal. Prior to the independence of Portugal, the house ruled the feudal County of Portugal , of the Kingdom of Galicia . When Afonso Henriques declared the independence of Portugal, he turned the family from a comital house to a royal house which would rule Portugal for over two centuries. During the Reconquista , the Afonsine Dynasty expanded
189-483: The D. Maria Pousada that recreates the golden age of the Queluz National Palace . The Feira Setecentista ("Eighteenth-Century Fair") recreates the reign of Queen Mary I of Portugal , and transports visitors back into a period where artisans and merchants produced arts and crafts. Choral concerts are also common to Sunday afternoons at Queluz National Palace, owing to the three choirs in the city. Similarly,
210-618: The Rococo pleasure palace, today known as the Queluz National Palace . Following the transfer of the Portuguese Royal Court to Queluz, during the reign of Queen Maria I and King Pedro III, numerous members of the Portuguese nobility established estates and palaces in the area, Sintra being the longtime retreat of the Portuguese aristocracy. Between July and August is a free fair outside
231-680: The Almond Tree . However, another suggestion, has it as forming from the Mountain of Light , Monte Abraão (the Mount of Abraham ), where worship of the sun was common. Human occupation of theis area dates back to the Late Neolithic or early Chalcolithic (between the third and fourth millennium B.C.), owing to the number of Neolithic monuments and vestiges from abandoned settlements unearthed by archeologists. These earliest date established to this settlement
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#1732854668549252-593: The Monte Abraão Fair (held every Saturday in the Rua Cidade Desportiva ) is the biggest in Queluz, allowing the sale of clothes, handicrafts, fruits and vegetables, flowers and implements. The biggest and most known teams in Queluz are Real Sport Clube , CA Queluz and JOMA (Juventude Operária do Monte Abraão). Real Sport Clube is Queluz local football team, CA Queluz the basketball one and JOMA main sport
273-558: The Portuguese Crown some honorary, such as the attribution of the title of Rex Fidelissimus (His Most Faithful Majesty), and royal titles, such as King of Brazil and then de jure Emperor of Brazil . After the demise of the Portuguese monarchy, in 1910, Portugal almost restored its monarchy in a revolution known as the Monarchy of the North , though the attempted restoration only lasted
294-588: The acclamation of Philip II of Spain as Philip I of Portugal in 1580, officially recognized in 1581 by the Portuguese Cortes of Tomar . Philip I swore to rule Portugal as a kingdom separate from his Spanish domains, under the personal union known as the Iberian Union . The House of Braganza , also known as the Brigantine Dynasty , came to power in 1640, when John II, Duke of Braganza , claimed to be
315-462: The centralized "taxi squares" and services achieved from telephone services. Portuguese monarchy This is a list of Portuguese monarchs who ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal , in 1139, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy and creation of the Portuguese Republic with the 5 October 1910 revolution . Through the nearly 800 years in which Portugal was
336-506: The clergy and/or nobility. In the 18th century, Infante Pedro of Braganza (future King Pedro III of Portugal ), in his capacity as Lord of the House of the Infantado , acquired an estate in Queluz, previously belonging to the Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo , and subsequently built a humble hunting lodge. Following his marriage to Queen Maria I of Portugal , the estate was radically expanded into
357-404: The country southwards until the definitive conquest of Algarve with Sancho II and the establishment of the Kingdom of Algarve , in 1249 , under Afonso III . When Ferdinand I died, a succession crisis occurred between 1383 and 1385. Ferdinand's daughter Beatrice of Portugal was proclaimed queen and her husband John I of Castile proclaimed king by the right of his wife . Her legitimacy as
378-725: The district: two in the civil parish of Queluz and the other in Massamá: Queluz has a micro-climate that is classified as an Upper Thermo-Mediterranean sub-humid type, with average annual precipitation of 825 millimetres (32.5 in). With three train stations on the Sintra Line (Monte Abraão, Barcarena-Massamá and Queluz-Belas ), Queluz falls within the Sintra-Lisbon corridor, with connections to Amadora and Sintra. Vimeca bus lines connect Queluz to Oeiras, Lisbon, Amadora and Carcavelos. Taxi services within Queluz, handled from
399-594: The rightful heir of the defunct House of Aviz, as he was the great-great-grandson of King Manuel I. John was proclaimed King John IV, and he deposed the House of Habsburg in 1640 during the Portuguese Restoration War . The Habsburgs continued to claim the throne of Portugal until the end of the war in the Treaty of Lisbon (1668) . The descendants of Queen Maria II and her consort, King Ferdinand II (a German prince of
420-513: The throne passed to his Grand-uncle, Henry of Portugal (he might be called Henry II because Henry, Count of Portugal , father of Alphonso I of Portugal , was the first of that name to rule Portugal). When Henry died, a succession crisis occurred and António, Prior of Crato , was proclaimed António of Portugal. The House of Habsburg , known as the Philippine dynasty , was the house that ruled Portugal from 1581 to 1640. The dynasty began with
441-523: Was 4200 B.C., followed by comparable settlements in 2000 B.C. (in what today is the civil parish of Massamá ). In the year 1147, when Afonso I of Portugal forces conquered the city of Lisbon, a similar campaign within the Sintra mountains effectively captures the heath of Queluz, bringing the lands under Christian control. From the first century until the 18th century, the region was primarily agrarian, occupied by homes, farms and few estates established by
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