Palace Hotel do Bussaco * * * * *

SPORT FACILITIES AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES AT THE PROPERTY OR NEARBY

Military museum and historical monument of the Duke of Wellington's first victory over Napoleon's army in the Iberian Peninsula, at the Battle of Bussaco, in 1810.

Long walks on the forested slopes of Bussaco or in the hotel's manicured formal garden.
Tennis court.
Outdoor swimming pool
Minigolf free for guests at the Curia Palace Hotel (15 min)

 ABOUT BUSSACO

In 1810, 66,000 French troops attacked the Duke of Wellington and his army of British and Portuguese soldiers during the unsuccessful Napoleonic invasion of Portugal. The forest survived, and so did the monastery, although it fell into government hands in 1834, when monasteries were abolished throughout Portugal.

Later in the 19th Century, the Portuguese royal family commissioned an Italian operatic scene painter and architect to build a summer palace and hunting lodge in the Buçaco Forest. The building (see photo above) was completed in 1907, shortly before the assassination of the king and crown prince. The king's Swiss chef obtained government permission to turn the palace into a hotel in 1910, and guests have been wallowing in pseudo-Manueline architecture and Edwardian comforts ever since.