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Palácio de São Bento

São Bento · Parliament · Free

A monastery became the parliament when the monks were expelled in 1834. The building itself is the regime change.

A former Benedictine monastery turned seat of Portugal's parliament since the 1830s liberal victory.

— Rui, The Historian
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