Watson, Walter Crum · London : A. Constable · leaf 397
many patios and cloisters, is over300,000 square feet; that of Mafra, also excluding all open spaces, is nearly 290,000. 264 PORTUGUESE ARCHITECTURE prominent part of the whole building, and one cannot but feelthat, though a monastery had to be built to fulfil a vow, theking was actuated not so… … PLAN OF MAFRA about 740 feet long, is flanked by huge square projectingpavilions. The kings and the queens apartments are eachentered by rather low and insignificant doorways in the middleof the long straight blocks which join these pavilions to thechurch. These doors lead under the palace to large…
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