It is a historic building located in Praça de Carlos Alberto, in the parish of Vitória, in the city of Porto, built in the mid-18th century by the nobleman José Alvo Brandão.
In the 1840s, António Bernardino Peixe rented the palace and moved his inn in Rua do Bonjardim to this location.
What made this inn famous was the stay, between 19 and 27 April 1849, of the exiled King Charles Albert of Sardinia, while he waited for the Quinta da Macieirinha house to be prepared, where he died on 28 July of the same year.
Since 1996, a number of Porto City Council departments have been operating here, namely the Municipal Directorate of Culture, the Urban Archaeology Office and the Numismatics Office.
Here we find the Materials Bank, an innovative project that promotes the safeguarding of materials that characterise the city’s image, collecting them from dilapidated buildings to be demolished or altered.
These include decorative and constructive elements from buildings in Porto, such as pieces of stucco from Avelino Ramos Meira’s workshop, as well as tiles with many patterns from the 17th to 20th centuries, as well as street signs collected over the years, and wooden, iron and stonework artefacts.
Also housed in the palace is the Triplex, which has a series of exhibition rooms on the ground floor.
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