Example sentences for: marquês

How can you use “marquês” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The broad and leafy Avenida da Liberdade runs for 1 km (0.6 mile) north, flanked by gardens, ponds, and fountains, as far as the circular Praça Marquês de Pombal (also known as the Rotunda), where a statue of the dictator Pombal gazes over the city.

  • The Rossio (Praça Marquês de Pombal) forms the heart of the lower town and is home to the hustle and bustle of a Saturday market, one of the region’s liveliest, where you can buy the famous pottery of Estremoz, tasty local cheese, and any of the other agricultural products of the Alentejo.

  • The town square, Praça do Marquês do Pombal, is the work of the royal architect, and the tour de force of Vila Real.

  • The Marquês de Pombal supervised the city’s reconstruction, redesigning it according to a geometric grid of broad avenues.

  • The task of rebuilding fell to the power behind the throne, an ambitious and tyrannical minister known as Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, best remembered as the Marquês de Pombal.


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