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The Palace Bettencourt ((ポルトガル語:Palácio Bettencourt)) is a former-residence, and current seat of the public library and regional archive, in the civil parish, in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. ==History== It is likely that the building was constructed sometime between the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century. 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).〔〔Francisco António de Araújo e Azevedo was substituted in 1820, by Francisco de Borja Garção Stockler, but remained on the island owing to his family relations. He was killed on 3 April 1821, for leading a Liberal uprising at the Fortress of São João Baptista〕 Following the fire at the Episcopal Palace, on 31 July 1885, the bishop moved his residence to the Bettencourt palace.〔 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.〔 Owing to an epidemic of typhus in the seminary at the Convent of São Francisco 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 ''Rua D. Amélia, 74''.〔 This move lasted until 1913, when the Lyceum was returned to the Convent.〔 It was sometime in the 20th century, that the facade was remodelled, leading in 1956 to the installation of the public library.〔 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 for Angra.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Palace of the Bettencourts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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