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    Rossio (redirect from Praça de D. Pedro IV)
    The King Pedro IV Square (Portuguese: Praça de D. Pedro IV), popularly known as Rossio ([ʁuˈsi.u]), is a square in the Pombaline Downtown of Lisbon, Portugal...
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    the north, towards the Rossio (Praça D. Pedro IV and Avenida da Liberdade); to the south, the (Terreiro do Paço) Praça do Comércio and the river zone;...
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  • Apresenta a sua Exposição de Bonecos de Cerâmica na Casa Travassos na Praça D. Pedro IV em Lisboa". Arquivo Nacional Torre de Tombo. Retrieved 8 January 2024...
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    Liberdade Square (Liberty or Freedom Square; Portuguese: Praça da Liberdade) is a square in the city of Porto, Portugal. It is located in Santo Ildefonso...
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    the dispute for the Portuguese throne between Dom Pedro I (known as Dom Pedro IV in Portugal) and his brother Dom Miguel. After the emperor's death from...
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    council deliberated whether to name the newly built courtyard the Praça D. Pedro IV, but popular sentiment opted for the name Alto da Memória (Heights...
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    great cost, and an equestrian statue of King Joseph still dominates the Praça do Comércio, Lisbon's main plaza. With Joseph's death on 24 February 1777...
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    the Kingdom his older brother Pedro IV and therefore the latter's daughter had lost their rights from the moment that Pedro had made war on Portugal and...
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    Aliados, Porto Rodrigues de Freitas High School (1918–1932), in the Praça de Pedro Nunes, Porto António Enes Bagana Building (1919), in the Rua do Rosário...
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    de Lavoura do Alandroal) Fountain of Praça (Portuguese: Fonte das Bicas/Fonte Monumental da Praça/Fonte da Praça) Great Mill of São Brás dos Matos (Portuguese:...
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    with his mother and his sons Dom Pedro, Prince of Beira (later Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and King Dom Pedro IV of Portugal), and Miguel (later King...
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    Braga was founded in 1071, turning D. Pedro its first archbishop. Between 1096 and 1112, Count D. Henrique and Countess D. Teresa were the masters of Braga...
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    parallel to Rossio, at the square originally called Praça Nova (New Square), and today known as the Praça da Figueira. Despite their fervent desire to complete...
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  • terminal Praça da Assembleia Legislativa Praça Ferreira do Amaral Praça de Jorge Álvares Praça do Lago Sai Van Praça de Luís de Camões Praça de Ponte...
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    pedestrians. The lower level links to the Porto waterfront, including the Praça da Ribeira and the lower station of the Guindais Funicular, at its northern...
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    usurped the Portuguese throne in 1828. He was the leader of the army of Pedro IV of Portugal, former Emperor of Brazil and King of Portugal, father of Queen...
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    Axis, a pair of wide avenues flanking a large park. In the "cockpit" is Praça dos Três Poderes, named for the 3 branches of government surrounding it...
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    installed in 1841 in the Hospício de Santo António do Vale da Piedade, in the Praça do Cordoaria and later the Episcopal Palace of Porto. In 1842 it finally...
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    Miradouro de São João de Brito Praça Andrade Caminha [pt] Praça de Alvalade Praça do Aeroporto [pt] Praça Francisco de Morais Praça Gonçalo Trancoso [pt] Rua...
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    reconstructed in an open rectangular plan with two great squares: the Praça do Rossio and the Praça do Comércio. The first, the central commercial district, is...
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    countryside route, with various stops starting on the Praça (the Square) with the Senhor da Praça baroque chapel, the Rates pillory and the old Rates township...
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    dominated by the Old Square (Portuguese: Praça Velha), also known as the Square of Saints Cosmo and Damian (Portuguese: Praça de São Cosmo e Daimão) or the Restoration...
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    River to deliver the coffin of the former King. The body was received at Praça do Comércio, where a crowd of people had gathered to follow the coffin to...
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    been the capital of the Portuguese Empire for 14 years. D. Pedro of Bragança (I of Brazil, IV of Portugal), abdicated the Brazilian Imperial throne in...
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    wood and silars of figurative azueljo; Residence Praça da Republica, No.18–21 (Portuguese: Casa na Praça da República, Nº18-21), a striking salmon-colored...
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    east. The project was never started.: 338–341  Between 1650–1652 King John IV wanted to expand Lisbon's fortifications in a more limited way. The plan was...
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    wide (12 m). The previously standing Royal Palace was replaced with the Praça do Comércio which, along with square Rossio, defines the limits of the new...
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    lands arranged between King John and the alcalde. King D. Afonso V donated Almeida to D. Pedro de Menezes. During the reign of King Manuel I the strengthening...
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    from the following year, in the Rossio de Sacavém Extra-Muros (the current Praça da República), "por ser local mais próximo fora da linha de circunvalação...
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    Evangelista), or Carmelite Church of Aveiro, is an 18th-century church in the Praça Marquês de Pombal, in the civil parish of Glória e Vera Cruz, in the Portuguese...
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