The municipal executive unanimously approved launching a tender worth €3 million for conservation and rehabilitation work on the surroundings and cloisters of the Mafra National Palace, with an execution period of 14 months after the start of the works.

The local authority also decided to launch another public tender worth €2.8 million for conservation and restoration work on the basilica and library of the national monument, with an execution period of 14 months after the start of the intervention.

The contracts are financed by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), which has foreseen a total financing of around €13 million for the monument.

The other intervention in the Mafra National Palace aims to permanently install the National Music Museum, an investment of seven million euros, the works for which are currently underway.

In 2022, the municipality established a cooperation agreement with the then Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage to carry out the works.

The most important heritage of the Mafra National Palace is the largest set of bells in the world, with two carillons and 119 bells, divided into hourly, liturgical and carillon bells, six historic organs and the library.

The monument will also house the National Music Museum, with one of the richest collections of musical instruments in Europe, with a collection of a thousand instruments from the 16th to the 20th centuries, of both classical and popular tradition.

Mafra National Palace was classified as a World Cultural Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in July 2019.