Greenhouses to visit in Portugal

The Verrière atlas lists 6 greenhouses in Portugal, built between 1769 and 2019.

Portugal combines iron glasshouses, royal gardens and climate-minded inventions. Coimbra's Estufa Grande (1859–1866) is among the country's earliest examples of iron architecture; in Lisbon, the Tropical Botanical Garden's main glasshouse dates from 1914, and a circular glasshouse from the reign of Pedro V awaits restoration. At Queluz, four glasshouses rebuilt on their eighteenth-century foundations are growing pineapples again. Lisbon's Estufa Fria, set in an abandoned quarry in 1933, does without either glass or heating, and in the Azores an orchid house opened in 2019 grew out of a gift of some 7,000 orchids.