(87) THE CLOISTER OF NOSSA SENHORA DO ESPINHEIRO
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.
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.
NOTE: See also THE CONVENT OF NOSSA SENHORA DO ESPINHEIRO and the cloister of SANTA MARIA DE CELAS MONASTERY.
[Portuguese post on Mar 30th, 2008]
Category: THE HERITAGE
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