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National Coach Museum -Museu dos Coches - XIV

National Coach Museum -Museu dos Coches - XIV

J. Gafarot
01 Sep 2015 18 24 941
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!