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unusual facts about São Bento Palace


São Bento Palace

In 1615, the monks settled in the area of the Casa da Saúde (Health House), that housed people sick with the plague.


Mouzinho da Silveira

In the Sala dos Passos Perdidos, in the Palace of São Bento, Mouzinho da Silveira was homaged with an oil painting by Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, while a comparable painting in Municipal hall of Lisbon, painted by José Rodrigues (executed in 1866) honours the politician, and in the Grão Vasco Museum (Viseu) a similar painting of Mouzinho by Columbano was framed.


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