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The square (also called by its former name Terreiro do Paço), wholly wiped out by the great earthquake of 1755, has seen its share of watershed political events: King Carlos and his son were felled by an assassin’s bullets there in 1908, and it was the site of one of the first uprisings of the Carnation Revolution of 1974.
The pretty town is most remarkable for its impressive 16th-century Paço Ducal (Ducal Palace) of the Bragança family, the last of Portugal’s royal dynasties.
The Paço used to be the favorite country house of the family, who often preferred hunting in the enormous surrounding park to the fuss of Lisbon or the cold of their palace in Bragança in northern Portugal (see page 84).
Just down the hill is the massive Paço dos Duques de Bragança (Ducal Palace), a mix between a French château and a crusader castle.
The Paço Episcopal (Bishop’s Palace) is home to a regional museum, displaying a splendid collection of highly elaborate colchas (bedspreads), as well as 16th-century tapestries.