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A seventeenth-century aristocratic palace set on the slopes of the Monsanto hillside in the western Sao Domingos de Benfica district of Lisbon, the Palacio Fronteira is one of the most architecturally distinguished surviving Portuguese country palaces of the wider late baroque tradition. The palace was completed in 1672 by the Portuguese nobleman Joao de Mascarenhas, the second Marquis of Fronteira, and has remained the principal residence of the wider Fronteira family continuously across the fo...