Visit the Convent of São Francisco - Salvador (Beja)

The Convent of San Francisco, located in the Parish of Salvador (Beja), was built in the year 1268, at the end of the reign D. Afonso III. Nevertheless the beginning of the Convent of San Francisco happened eighty years later, in 1348, with the support of the local nobility and the king D. Dinis.

However it would undergo changes over the centuries so that elements of different styles of architecture are visible. From the Gothic period it maintains the call Chapel / Room of the Tombs, a funerary chapel built already in the century. XV, considered by some people as one of the most interesting Gothic in the country.

Already in the century. XIX, with the extinction of religious orders, the ecclesiastical set did not escape the destructive fury of that time, and the convent was transformed into military barracks. The church had several functions, such as a barber shop, a barn, and the tombs there to serve as drinking fountains for animals.

Currently the convent is converted into a private group hostel.