2008-06-30 » BEFORE THE CONVENT TURNED INTO A LUXURY HOTEL, its cloister had Magnolias (Magnolia grandiflora - I think that there were two of them). Lush and admirable trees, that probably had been there for centuries.
Surroundings of Évora - Portugal.
«In the extinct convent, the Gothic-Manueline cloister is to be noticed, with [...]
2008-03-29 »
Some aspects of Santa Maria de Celas' cloister, Coimbra - Portugal.
A Cistercian feminin Monastery from 1210, National Monument (Monumento Nacional) decreed on June 6th 1910 (by that time Portugal was a Monarchy!). It is nowadays still one of the most important examples of Portuguese Medieval Art and Architecture.
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