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Mafra National Palace
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Mafra National Palace
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Mafra Nationa Palace (Palace- Monastery) - Monk Cells
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The monk hospital - Mafra National Palace - Monastery
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Mafra National Palace
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Mafra National Palace - Music room or Yellow Room
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Mafra National Palace - Music Room or Yellow Room
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Mafra National Palace - King D. João V' Bedroom
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Mafra National Palace - Library with marble floors, bookshelves in Rococo style and a collection of over 36,000 books with leather bookbinding etched gold - (88 m long, 9.5 m wide and 13 m high).
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Mafra National Palace - Library with marble floors, bookshelves in Rococo style and a collection of over 36,000 books with leather bookbinding etched gold - (88 m long, 9.5 m wide and 13 m high).
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Mafra National Palace - This was the Queen's private Chapel
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Mafra National Palace, The throne room, Official audiencies were given here. The frescoes on the walls representing the Royal Virtues (Perfection, Tranquility, Kindness, Knowledge, Generosity, Peace, Constancy and Conscience) are by Domingos Sequeira
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Mafra National Palace - The Hunting trophy room is decorated with numerous skulls of deer, the furniture is constructed of antlers and covered with deerskin and even the candleholders are made of deer antlers.
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The Basilica, the interior, all marble, with 11 chapels, 45 galleries, 6 pipe organs, 40 statues of religious figures, 4 carillons (2 manuals, with four-octave keyboards, and 2 mechanics) and 110 bells, 93 of which are linked to the carillons.
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Mafra National Palace - The basilica - The interior makes abundantly use of local rose-coloured marble, intermingled with white marble in different patterns. The multi-coloured designs of the floor are repeated on the ceiling
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Mafra National Palace Library