Hospital de D. Estefânia | QUEEN STEPHANIE OF PORTUGAL HOSPITAL

 Hospital de D. Estefânia

in the 19th century

(left and below)

Original plant of 

Queen Stephanie's Hospital (1860s)

AND TODAY:

See the highlighted

green space 

surrounded by pink?

It's the

Queen's Hospital

and its gardens.

Notice how few other

green spaces

central Lisbon has

The Queen Stephanie's 

Hospital Friends' League

Queen Stephanie's Hospital still exists in 2014.

But there are plans for its destruction, due to

its centrality and the value of its land and gardens.

Nevertheless, it was built on land owned by the King

and with money of the Royal Household.


Read the 
Biography of QUEEN STEPHANIE 
in the pages 
of the VII volume
of LISBOA DESAPARECIDA 
(Lost Lisbon)
by Historian 
Marina Tavares Dias, 2001.