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Showing posts with label Tavora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tavora. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Visit the Church of St. John the Baptist - Tavora

The Church of St. John the Baptist, located in the Town of Tavora, presents religious architecture, baroque, rococo and neoclassical. It consists of nave, chancel, sacristy and storage attachment. The bell tower has two registers, separated by a frieze and cornice. The interior shows the wooden choir.

Visit the Convent of St. Peter of the Eagles - Tavora

The Convent of St. Peter of Eagles, located in the Town of Tavora, traces of Romanesque religious architecture, Mannerist and Baroque. The original structure shows that it was a Cistercian monastery. The church has a nave, chancel and sacristy. It also cloister with dormitory, refectory, chapter room and a fifth for agricultural self-sufficiency of convent life.

Visit the Chapel of St. Anthony - Tavora

The Chapel of St. Anthony, located in the Town of Tavora, and manner longitudinal plan simple and wooden ceiling. Is based on strong background due to the sloping terrain of deployment.

Visit the Chapel of Santa Barbara - Tavora

The Chapel of Santa Barbara, located in the Town of Tavora, is simple and architectural revival. The altarpiece presents polychrome and gilded, baroque Johannine. It is situated on a high point with a view.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Pleasures - Tavora

The Chapel of Our Lady of Joy, located in the Town of Tavora, presents religious architecture, Baroque and Rococo. Chapel is a longitudinal plan of simple, single space, with even coverage of wood and illuminated by trough cracks in facades torn lateral zone of the high altar. Gable on the main facade, torn by portal flanked by arched windows down prostrate. Facades with wedges apilastrados signed by pyramidal pinnacles and finials on frieze and cornice. Altarpiece carved polychrome and gilded rococo.
It has trim in pyramidal pinnacles bulbous, with very narrow fenestrations, resulting in poor indoor lighting. Rococo altarpiece as a transition to the neoclassical, visible in the type of foliage and little relief from the vegetal elements.