BEFORE THE CONVENT WAS 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 four corridors and two granite buttressed floors, marble columns with naturalist capitals, twin arcades, rib vaults and royal locks, armillary spheres and crosses of Christ. It was built by masters of stonemasonry João Álvares and Álvaro Anes (1520-22).»
Translated from Túlio Espanca, Évora - Arte e História (Art and History). 1980.

[Originally posted on Mar 30th, 2008]

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