House of Sub-Ripas/Paço Sub-Ripas/Paço Over-Ribas (Coimbra) (*)-The most beautiful monument of this city civil Manueline

The Palace of About Shingles in Coimbra is one of the most outstanding civil buildings of the sixteenth century in Portugal. Since there are few Manueline addresses that remain in Coimbra, but this is quite remarkable. The Sub-Shingles Palace was built on the battlement of the wall and included one of the towers. It is near the Tower of Anto and the College of St. Augustine, which has a magnificent cloister Mannerist (*). It consists of two distinct bodies: the Casa de Cima, or the House to the east of the Arc (Read Full Article)

Pillory of Vila Nova de Foz Coa (*) - is one of the most beautiful of Portugal

This is one of the colorful and monumental pillories of Portugal, and deserves the visitor, after visiting the mother church of Vila Nova de Foz Coa (*) contiguous to devote ror a time. It is a National Monument since 1910. What is a whipping post or pillory? It is mainly a symbol of municipal power, so stood in front of the camera. They consist of stone columns, based, stem and capital placed in a public place, where they were sometimes tortured and exposed (Read Full Article)

Church of Vila Nova de Foz Coa (*)-the beauty of Manueline

Built in the sixteenth century, the church of Vila Nova de Foz Coa and the Pillory (*), both located in the city Largo, constitute an optimal set of the Manueline style. The church of Vila Nova de Foz Coa was dramatically changed in the following centuries, retaining only the beauty of this style porch, maybe some of the work of Arruda, who at that time worked at the Cathedral of Guarda (**) and the edification of the Church of Ash-the Sword Strap (*). The church has an influence (Read Full Article)

The main chapel of the Church of Mercy Sword Ash-a-Belt (*)

Situated in the square Jorge Alvares, opposite the Parish Church of Ash-a-Belt Sword (**), the church of Mercy of the sixteenth century, is one of the most beautiful Manueline monuments of Tras-os-Montes. Its façade desornamentada, with a large portal to the wide staves fashion of Castile, is the opposite of its interior magnificently worked. The nave is narrow but very tall and elongated. The chancel is vaulted outstanding (*) or by the sumptuous gilded baroque altarpiece, with (Read Full Article)

Church of Jesus and the Old Monastery cloister (***) (Setubal) (Part 1)

The church of the Convent of Jesus and its cloister (*) and museum (**) is the most important monument in the beautiful city of Setubal and primatial one of the hallmarks of the style that became known as "Manueline". The Convent of Jesus of Setúbal was founded by the love of D. Manuel I in 1490 (when he was only Duke of Beja and administrator of the Order of Christ), for use by the cloistered nuns, who would live according to the Franciscan rule. "It's the King John II who the following year, after a visit to (Read Full Article)

Manueline portal of the Palace of the Dukes of Cadaval (Olivença) (*)

Walking in Olivença becomes very convenient, because from the Palais de Arteaga (which is a magnificent tourist accommodation in the historical) can walk in a few tens of meters and find all the local notables. Let's start with the Manueline doorway of the Palace of the Dukes of Cadaval which is a fine example of this style as Lusitano. The description is wrong because it has always been the City Hall (Ayuntamento) and never belonged to the Dukes of cadaval despite (Read Full Article)

Manueline windows of the Palace of Dom Nuno de Sousa (Portalegre) (*)

These beautiful Manueline windows, in Portland, on the street Azevedo Coutinho, especially the central great beauty, are classified as National Monument and was built during the influence of Bishop and Jorge de Melo. Moreover, there are several points in common between orders here sponsored by D. Jorge de Melo, and the work of the Palace of D. Nuno de Sousa. In fact there are some similarities between the aesthetic and plastic housing of the main window as in the noble (Read Full Article)

Church of San Miguel, Sword Matrix Ash-a-Belt (**)

The parish church of Ash-the Sword-Strap reminds, to a lesser extent, the church of the Monastery of Jeronimos (*****), in Lisbon abobadamento ships of the same height. It is a church-hall building sent by D. Manuel at the site of an old Gothic church, originally built in the reign of King Sancho II. The sixteenth-century campaign would drag on for much longer, almost a century, and the works closed permanently after the restoration of independence, since (Read Full Article)

Manueline window of the Tower House in Gouveia (*)

The Tower House in the municipality of Gouveia was built in the sixteenth century and was part of a manor, though it was being dismantled. Its highlight a remarkable Manueline window. The manor belonged to the first Earl of Gouveia, then Marquis, a title granted by King Philip III of Portugal. The last of the Marquis of Gouveia, the Duke of Aveiro, Don José de Mascarenhas, was tried and executed with his family, by the Marquis of Pombal in 1759, following in the so-called (Read Full Article)