Visiting the Convent of São Jorge de Milreus - Viegas Castle (Coimbra)

The Convent of São Jorge de Milreus, located in the parish of Castelo Viegas, was founded in 1080.
By the mid-twelfth century, the Convent would have attained great prosperity, as appears to be apparent from the great donation that Salvador Viegas made to the cenobium in 1159 of a remarkable array of goods in the immediate vicinity.
What can be seen today in São Jorge de Milreus is the product of a major remodeling campaign carried out from 1526. This monumental Mannerist campaign was one of many Jesuits throughout the country, entering in the institution's government precisely in this 16th century. For the next two centuries, the convent was the subject of numerous partial artistic campaigns, notably the tiled coverings of the church and the chapter room, dating from the first half of the 18th century, and the joanine painting campaign by André Gonçalves for the chapel. love the church.
From 1834, with the passage to the possession of private, Milreus saw his artistic heritage successively alienated, although his space has always had occupation.

Visit the Graça Convent - Castelo Branco

The Convent of Grace or Convent of Our Lady of Grace, located in the Parish of Castelo Branco, is currently the headquarters of the Holy House of Mercy of Castelo Branco.
In the Graça Convent was the grave of Simão da Costa, the father of Bartolomeu da Costa.
The current building was built next to the conventinho (the convent was the church of the convent) and is an example of the Chã Architecture, so characteristic of the end of the 16th century, which stands out the clear and robust structure of the cloister. Behind the main altar of the Church of Grace is the Fonseca Chapel, built by Diogo da Fonseca (one of four illustrious brothers of Castelo Branco) to serve as a mausoleum for his family.

Visit the Church and Convent of São Bento - Santa Maria (Bragança)

The Church of São Bento, located in the parish of Santa Maria, Bragança, is part of a convent founded in 1590 by order of D. Maria Teixeira, occupying the houses that belonged to it. Even today, the stones of arms visible in the facade of the temple and the pediment of baroque style are visible. In the interior the ceiling of the vaulted nave stands out, with paintings by Manuel Caetano Fortuna, the chapel with altarpiece of 1721 and the ceiling that boasts an excellent scenic painting, using the Trompe-l'oeil technique.

Visit the Church of the former Convent of Salvador - São João do Souto (Braga)

The Church of the former Convent of Salvador, located in the Parish of St. John of the Souto, was built in the early seventeenth century and rebuilt after 1908. The church is decorated in the Baroque style, highlighted by the ceiling painted by Domingos Lourenço in 1622.

Visit the Convent and Church of São Francisco - Real (Braga)

Convent of San Francisco, located in the Parish of Real, is composed of a church with a longitudinal plant, with an endonart, a single nave and a rectangular main chapel, on the axis, with a Greek cross chapel, laterally attached and conventual premises with irregular plant. Church with main facade, framed by pilasters in the wedges topped by pediment countersunk with edicule to the center.

It has 3 perfect back arc spans that open in the first register and rectangular window flanked by edicts, in the second, separated by strip of stone with the arms stone of the Franciscan Order. Endonártex with tiles of standard seiscentistas, possibly reutilized of the previous construction. Retables lateral, rococo and baroque joanino. Main altarpiece Baroque Johannine. Sixteenth-century chain, reclaimed from the Cathedral of Braga. Very simple conventual premises, devoid of decorative elements, with small loggia, with interior cover in edge vault. Adjacent to the church is the famous Chapel of St. Frutuoso, incorporated in the church, when the reconstruction of the convent in the 18th century. 18. The choir of the choir-choir is one of the three 16th-century examples in Portugal, which still remain today. The work of carving of the altarpieces, attributed to two of the great Bracaran figures, is of excellent quality, standing out two of the lateral altarpieces, which extend throughout the right foot of the nave, framing the windows. The main altarpiece presents the same imaginary arrangement of the main façade. The sacristy preserves above the archazion a reliquary retable in gilded carving.

Visit the Convent of Santo António - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)

The Convent of Santo António, located in the Parish of Santa Maria da Feira (Beja), was built during the reign of King João II. Only the cloister, the church and the chapter room remain at the present time. The cloister has the walls covered with quinine tiles, green and white with metallic reflections.

Visit the Rainha Dona Leonor Museum

The Queen Dona Leonor Museum, located in the Municipality of Beja, also known as Beja Regional Museum in the Alentejo, is located in the dependence of the former Convent of the Conception.

Visit the Convent of Our Lady of the Conception - Salvador (Beja)

The Convent of Our Lady of the Conception of Beja, located in the Parish of Salvador, belonged to the Order of the Friars Minor, and the Province of the Algarves.

In 1459, it was founded and granted license for its institution by two short ones of Pio II

It was erected next to the Infante Palace, in the center of the city. It began to be built on the initiative of the Duke of Beja, the infant D. Fernando (brother of D. Afonso V) and his wife D. Beatriz, the first dukes of Beja and country of D. Manuel.

In 1461 he received the oratory of St. Vitus.

In 1463, the third ones had already made profession in the Order of Santa Clara.

In 1469, the convent was almost completed, received the invocation of Our Lady of the Conception of Mary Most Holy, and the urbanist rule, as shown in the bull of December 21 of that year, granted by Pope Paul II.

In 1505, through the intervention of the Duchess of Beja, in spite of the observing direction, the convent became a pantheon of the ducal family.

With the end of religious orders the convent fell into decadence and was on the verge of ruin.

In 1895, the Paço dos Infantes was demolished, which was annexed to the convent, and part of the convent area. At that time it was possible to partially rebuild the convent.

On October 5, 1927, the Regional Museum of Art and Archeology was inaugurated in the building of the Monastery of Nossa Senhora da Conceição that occupies it up to the present day.

Visit Carmo Church - Vera Cruz (Aveiro)

The Carmo Church, located in the Parish of Vera Cruz (Aveiro) and dated 1628, is what remains of the seventeenth-century Carmelite convent, built in 1613. In the seventeenth century altarpieces were placed in gilded wood, in the eighteenth century the chapel and the front wall and were built in the nineteenth century, proceeded to the destruction of the convent areas and building an altar on one side of the transept. The church contains beautiful sculptures and paintings depicting scenes from the Passion of Christ.

Visit the Cathedral of Aveiro - Glory (Aveiro)

The Cathedral of Aveiro, located in the Town of Glory (Aveiro), is a church of the former Dominican convent founded in 1423 and of which only left a carved stone wall where a Virgin anicha Gothic. Its Baroque portico dates from 1719. In the porch inside is Cruise S. Sundays, from the late fifteenth century, carved in flaming Gothic style. It presents various styles of art as the side chapels Mannerism, Baroque in choir and Modernism in the transept and the chancel.
It is classified as a Public Interest.

Visit the Parque Dom Pedro Infante - Glory (Aveiro)

Infante Dom Pedro Park, located in the Town of Glory (Aveiro), started functioning from 1862 from the area that belonged to the Convent of St. Anthony.
Through the use of the river crossing created a series of lakes and fountains punctuate the surrounding green area. Focus on the avenue of lime trees, the gazebo iron, tiles and panels at the corners of romantic bridges and trees.

Visit the Museum of Santa Joana Princesa - Glory (Aveiro)

The Museum of Santa Joana Princesa, located in the Town of Glory (Aveiro), occupies the premises of the Convent of Jesus, which was built in the century. XV.
The facade of the current century date. Eighteenth and enroll her three portals with beautiful gables, seeing the royal coat of arms in the middle. The building retains some living spaces that served the convent: the lobby, where the ordinance worked, the cloister of the century. XV, which retains a Renaissance colonnade, some chapels decorated with azulejos and Manueline the chapter house.
The Museum was founded in 1911 to house works of art gathered in homes and religious communities in the region and across the country, including Lisbon, dissolved or ended with the extinction of religious orders, including those originating in the convent of Jesus.
It has remarkable collections of paintings, sculpture, carvings, tiles, jewelery, furniture and vestments.
Collections of painting deserves a portrait of the Infanta's Saint Joan, attributed to Nuno Gonçalves School.
Magnificent altar frontals gold embroidery, very valuable collections of vestments and jewelery, rare manuscripts of secs. XV and XVI (including the foundation of the convent and life of Saint Joan), the Museum of Aveiro make a mandatory stop.

Visit the Church of São Sebastião (Setúbal)

The Church of São Sebastião (Setúbal), located in the parish of the same name, is in the Mannerist style and Pombal, and is integrated in the convent of Santo Domingo.

Visit the Convent of Arrábida - São Lourenço (Setúbal)

The Arrábida Convent, located in Serra da Arrabida, in the Parish of St. Lawrence (Setúbal), was built in the sixteenth century, and covers over its 25 hectares, the Old Monastery, situated on the highest of the mountains , the New Monastery, located on the slopes, and the Garden Sanctuary of Bom Jesus.
It also displays high in the mountains, the four chapels, the set of watchtowers of veneration of the mysteries of the Passion and some cells in rocks form what is commonly called the Old Monastery.
The convent was founded in 1542 by Fray Martin de Santa Maria.
The first four Franciscans friars were: Martin de Santa Maria, Diogo de Lisboa, Pedraita Francisco and San Pedro de Alcantara.

Visit the Convent of Jesus - Saint Julian (Setúbal)

The Convent of Jesus of Setúbal is now a Gothic style church situated in the Parish of St. Julian, considered an early example of Manueline.
The interior has arches, twisted columns and windows made ​​in breach of Arrábida, which support the vaults. The ceiling features a spiral ribs.

Visit the Convent of Christ - St. John the Baptist (Tomar)

The Convent of Christ, historical monument in the city of Tomar, located in the parish of St. John the Baptist, classified by UNESCO as World Heritage, belonged to the Knights Templar. It was founded in 1160 by the Grand Master of the Templars, gift Gualdim Parents, the Convent of Christ still has memories of these monks and knights of the heirs of his office, the Order of Christ, which made ​​this building their headquarters. It is a suburban construction, implemented on top of a hill overlooking the plain where the city extends. It is surrounded by the walls of the Castle of Tomar and the forest fence. Today is a cultural, tourist and even devotional. The architecture shares traits Romanic, Gothic, Manueline, Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque.

Visit the Convent of Santa Iria - Santa Maria Olivais (Tomar)

The Convento de Santa Iria, located in the Parish of St. Mary of the groves, has a church in honor of the city of Tomar padroreira: Santa would. The present church is the result of the reform of the sixteenth century, standing out the door and a side chapel sixteenth century. This chapel stands the altar of stones and Renaissance decor. The altar stone is the hip. There is the nave of the church tiled seventeenth century, the chapel covered with a ribbed vault and gilded altars.

Visit the Convent of the Knights Templar Quinta da Granja - Quarry

The Convent of the Knights Templar at Quinta da Granja, located in Quarry Town, formerly owned by the Order of Christ, was built in 1619.

Visit the Convent of Corpus Christi - Santa Marinha (Vila Nova de Gaia)

The Convent of Corpus Christi, located in the Town of Santa Marinha, has the church centered design, is organized along an axis, with octagonal vaulted nave, the chancel choir to the east and west, crowned by a dome. In artistic terms, especially the four side altars (with images of rare beauty], the Choir-Alto (site of the first phase of the Baroque, consisting of a distributed stalls on two levels, in the shape of "U" and gilt), the roof consists of 49 decorated panels with oil paintings on wood. The imaginary painting and decorating the church (the roof of the choir, the choir stalls and altarpieces backrest) present an iconography that fits the theme of the Order, representing Saints, Doctors of Church, Dominican and other figures, with emphasis on three main devotions, the Holy Rosary, the name of Jesus and the Eucharist. The stalls, the first half of the seventeenth century, for the hours the office for meetings and convent, has the particularity of In each seat, there is a different figurehead, representing blacks or exotic, plant and animal species, and each scroll is a carved mask, each one different from the others, suggesting influences of Overseas Empire.
Here lies buried D. Leonor Alvim, wife of Constable D. Nuno Alvares Pereira, and grandmother, Don Aboim Maria Mendes, who died in 1355 and founded the convent, is also here the coffin of Cernache Alvaro Anes, first lord of Gaia, which was Flag Lieutenant Ward Valentine at the Battle of Aljubarrota (1385).

Visit the Convent of Avessada