Ajuda

Ajuda
Civil parish
Clockwise: Ajuda National Palace; Ajuda Botanical Garden; streets of Ajuda; Botanical Garden; Igreja da Memória .
Nossa Senhora da Ajuda
Website	http://www.jf-ajuda.pt/

Ajuda (Portuguese pronunciation:

During the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, Ajuda did not escape the destruction, losing many of the buildings constructed over the centuries. This included the Convento de Nossa Senhora da Boa Hora (English: Convent of Our Lady of the Good Hour), which was later reconstructed by the Augustine monks in 1756. The royal family too had to abandon the Palácio da Ribeira (English: Ribeira Palace), and began living, along the court, in the Quinta de Cima in Ajuda, initially in wooden buildings, locally called the Real Barraca (English: Royal Lodge).

The level of insecurity after the earthquake and tsunami forced many to install themselves in Ajuda; the population grew from 1059 inhabitants to 4748 residents. The village consisted of five separate agglomerations clustered around the roadways: Calçada da Ajuda (alongside Alcântara); Travessa da Estopa; Calçada de Nossa Senhora da Ajuda; Rua das Mercês and Rua da Paz.

In 1762, Ajuda became a part of the municipality of Lisbon and dropped pretenses of a suburban locality. The parish was an agglomeration of houses, manors, quarries, earthen stoves and windmills. In 1768, the