National Coach Museum -Museu dos Coches - XIV

The main exhibition hall ends with three huge baroque coaches, made in Rome, for the Portuguese ambassador to the Vatican D. Rodrigo Almeida e Menezes, Marquis of Abrantes in an embassy sent to Pope Clement XI by order of King D. João V of Portugal. These coaches of 5 tons have luxurious interiors and are decorated with golden life-sized sculptures. For many years no European monarch sent embassies to the Vatican not being able to achieve such grandeur!