Hospital Miguel Bombarda

Miguel Bombarda Hospital opened in 1848 in the building of the Congregation of the Mission of the Priests of Saint Vincent de Paul – built between 1730 and 1750 on the former Quinta de Rilhafoles. After the abolition of religious orders in Portugal, the building housed the Royal Military College and, in 1848, was converted into a hospital for the insane, becoming the oldest psychiatric hospital in the country, under the name of Rilhafoles Hospital. In 1853, the Balneário building was built, inaugurated by Queen Maria II, for therapeutic baths used in psychiatry, considered the best in Europe.