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The building is located in a central place, in the city of Angra do Heroísmo, on a subtle declive, with its lateral wings sitting flush with its neighbours. To the south is a small garden, with rectangular wing, while to the front is the
Cathedral of the Santíssimo Salvador; and around it are various
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The palace was classified by a resolution-in-council (126/2004) on 9 September 2004, and included within the historical classification of the historic centre of Angra. Three years later, in
February, there was a presentation of a public project for a new building for the library and regional archive
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The architecture conforms to a 17th-century noble residence, in an irregular L-shaped plan, integrating a rectangular tower with two-story facade, separated by friezes and with pilastered corners. There are many decorative elements constructed in basalt, such as the frames, rectangular windows and
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ornate door. The main facade is marked by picture windows on the first floor and several friezes and cornices over the coat-of-arms of the family. Its interior includes a central vestibule, open to the front by arched entrance over pilasters, from which was constructed a staircase.
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Alterations to the interior and exterior occurred sometime between the 18th and 19th century, at the point when
Francisco António de Araújo e Azevedo, then 7th Captain-General of the Azores was in power (the last during the absolutist regime).
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The principal doorway is framed and decorated with sculpted stone, and surmounted by a large rectangular cartouche with the coat-of-arms of the
Bettencourt family.
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D. Francisco José Ribeiro Vieira de Brito organized a banquet in order to hommage
Augusto Castilho, commander of the corvette Duque Terceira on 21 May 1896.
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resulted in the move of the Lyceum of Angra to the palace. The bishop, who continued to live at the Palace to this period, transferred his residence to
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It was sometime in the 20th century, that the facade was remodelled, leading in 1956 to the installation of the public library.
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The main entrance to public library and regional archive which was installed in the Palace
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Following the fire at the
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It is likely that the building was constructed sometime between the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century.
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residences of notable architectural interest, including the palacete
Violante Castro.
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The front facade of the palace, with the large coat-of-arms of the Bettencourt family
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family, and current seat of the public library and regional archive, in the
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Francisco António de Araújo e Azevedo was substituted in 1820, by
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Parque Arqueológico Subaquático da Baía de Angra do Heroísmo
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The library spaces, with stacks and ornate wood ceiling
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Owing to an epidemic of typhus in the seminary at the
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178:Portuguese
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591:landmarks
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549:São Pedro
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