Guimaraes - Paço Ducal
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At the foot of the castle hill, surrounded by greensward, is the large Paço Ducal, the Palace of the Dukes of Bragança, a magnificent Gothic residence originally built by Afonso, first Duke of Bragança, in the French style fashionable in his day (completed 1442). After the seat of the Bragança family was transferred in the early 16th C. to Vila Viçosa the palace lost its earlier importance, and over the centuries fell into ruin.
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Address:
Paco Ducal, Rua Conde D. Henrique
4810-245 Guimarães, , Portugal
4810-245 Guimarães, , Portugal
Hours:
9:30am-12pm, 2pm-5pm; Closed: Mon
Always closed on: New Year's Day (January 1), Christmas - Christian (December 25), Easter - Christian
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