Queluz

Queluz is a city in municipality in , , and home to one of the finest examples of Rococo architecture in Europe: the Queluz National Palace.
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  • Type: City with 75,200 residents
  • Description: city in Sintra municipality, in the Greater Lisbon Area of Portugal
  • Also known as: “Queluz, Portugal”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Monte Abraão train station and Anta do Monte Abraão.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Protected area
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The was a megalithic dolmen located in the parish of Monte Abraão, in Queluz, Sintra Municipality, , . The dolmen was first identified in 1876, by Carlos Ribeiro, who carried out excavations until 1878 and published his results in 1880.

University
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The of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon inherited the function of the National Conservatoire, founded by Almeida Garrett, in 1836, and of teaching Film, introduced in the same establishment since 1971.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Amadora and Venteira.

Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, officially City of , is a city and municipality in the northwest of the and 10 km from central . The population in 2011 was 175,136, in an area of 23.78 km2.

Suburb
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is a civil parish in the municipality of , Portugal. The population in 2011 was 18,539, in an area of 5.31 km2. In 2013, the northern part of the parish of Reboleira was merged into .

Town
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is a town.

Queluz

Latitude
38.7566° or 38° 45′ 24″ north
Longitude
-9.2545° or 9° 15′ 16″ west
Population
75,200
Elevation
125 metres (410 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PT QDB
Open location code
8CCGQP4W+J5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1806356067
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2264268
Wiki­data ID
Q1003060
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Queluz” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كويلوز”
  • Belarusian: “Келуш”
  • Catalan: “Queluz”
  • Cebuano: “Queluz”
  • Chinese: “克盧什”
  • Czech: “Queluz”
  • Danish: “Queluz”
  • Dutch: “Queluz (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Queluz”
  • Esperanto: “Queluz”
  • French: “Queluz”
  • Georgian: “კელუში”
  • German: “Queluz”
  • Greek: “Κελούζ”
  • Hebrew: “קואלוז‘”
  • Italian: “Queluz”
  • Japanese: “ケルシュ (ポルトガル)”
  • Japanese: “ケルシュ”
  • Japanese: “ケルス”
  • Kazakh: “Kelwş”
  • Kazakh: “Келуш”
  • Kazakh: “كەلۋش”
  • Lithuanian: “Kelusas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Queluz”
  • Malay: “Queluz, Portugal”
  • Malay: “Queluz”
  • Mazanderani: “کیوئلز، پرتغال”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Queluz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Queluz i Portugal”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Queluz i Sintra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Queluz”
  • Norwegian: “Queluz”
  • Persian: “کیوئلز، پرتغال”
  • Persian: “کیوئلز”
  • Polish: “Queluz”
  • Portuguese: “Queluz”
  • Romanian: “Queluz”
  • Russian: “Келуш”
  • Slovak: “Queluz”
  • Slovenian: “Queluz”
  • Spanish: “Queluz”
  • Swahili: “Queluz”
  • Swedish: “Queluz”
  • Tatar: “Келуж”
  • Turkish: “Queluz”
  • Ukrainian: “Келуш (Португалія)”
  • Welsh: “Queluz”
  • “Queluz”

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