Palácio Galveias
Palácio Galveias—Palácio das Galveias—is Lisbon’s mid-17th-century house of power that later became a municipal library. It begins as a country home built for the Marquis of Távora, and in 1759 the Távora affair brought catastrophe: the Távora family was executed and the palace was confiscated by the Crown. The name “Galveias” comes from a change in ownership in 1801, when it was acquired by D. João de Almeida de Melo e Castro, the 5th Count of Galveias. Architecturally, the palace is known for its U-shaped plan, influenced by French design ideals, with a formal “pátio nobre” laid out on a regular square. In 1928, the palace entered the possession of the Lisbon Municipal Chamber, which installed one of the city’s earliest municipal libraries there—an early civic reuse that kept a noble residence at the center of public life.
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