The Palace of Queluz near Lisbon was designed by Mateus Vicente de Oliveira for Peter of Braganza, later King Peter III, as a summer retreat. Jean-Baptiste Robillon did the gardens, many buildings and the Rococo interiors, and Manuel Caetano de Sousa designed the Queen Maria I Pavilion. Work began in 1747, stopped after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and resumed in 1758. The final phase ran from 1786 to 1792. The page has no infobox.
The article calls the style Rococo, a reaction against earlier Baroque design, and much smaller than Versailles. It uses travertine rendering, azulejo tiles, Genoese stone, Italian marbles and woods from Brazil, Denmark and Sweden. The garden canal is over 328 feet (100 m) long.
The state took ownership in 1908, and a 1934 fire gutted a third of the interior. It has been a public museum since 1940, and the Queen Maria I Pavilion serves as Portugal's state guest house. The article gives no hours.
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