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9.
UNIVERSITY
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 Founded
by the Cardinal Infante D.Henrique in 1559, it housed the professors
and other personages of cultural and religious renown in the Portuguese
World: St. Francisco de Borja, St. João de Brito, Pedro de
Fonseca, Manuel Álvares, Luís de Molina, Francisco Suarez
and prelates of numerous dioceses throughout the Portuguese Empire,
including D. Afonso Mendes, Patriarch of Abyssinia, and D. Pedro Martins,
first bishop of Japan. The most noteworthy areas include the Renaissance
cloister and the Sala dos Actos (official meeting room); the Holy
Spirit temple, of Mannerist style inspired in the Church of Jesus
in Rome, by the architect Da Vignola, who sent its design through Jesuit missionaries to the portuguese territories in India and Brazil.
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10. CHURCH
OF OUR LADY OF CARMO
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 Given
by the crown in 1665, the carmelites sttled down in the old sixteenth
century palace founded by D. Jaime de Bragança, conqueror of
Azamor (Northern Africa) in 1513. Of the old palace there still exists
the wrought iron railing in the main entrance of the church and the
imposing knot door, symbol of the Bragança House.
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CHURCH OF MERCY |
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 Sisterhood
founded by the King D. Manuel and D. Leonor of Lancaster, widow of
the Perfect Prince, in 1499. The temple's interior is sumptuous, of
Baroque wood carvings and historical scenes painted on tiles attributed
to António de Oliveira Bernardes (1716). Next door is the SOURE
HOUSE, of Manueline architecture, which was the residence of the purveyor
Cristóvão Nunes. Not very far from it (67, Miguel Bombarda
Street) there are important vestiges of the Manor House of Infant
D. Luís, father of the ephemeral King D. António, Prior
of Crato (1506-1555).
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ST.VINCENT'S CHURCH |
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In
1467 by Luís Loy, Prince Henry the Navigator's valet. Of the
primitive building there are some vestiges of gothic architecture.
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13.CHURCH
OF OUR LADY OF GRACE |
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 Sponsored
by D.João II and the Counts of Vimioso, this church, with well-defined
Roman elements, is considered one of the first works of Renaissance
style in Portugal, where worked Miguel de Arruda and Nicolau Chanterene.
The latter sculpted the chronogram of 1537 in the delicate frieze
of the high altar. In 1595 the poetess Públia Hortência
de Castro, from Vila Viçosa, was buried in the cloister.
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ST. FRANCIS CHURCH |
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 The
chapel dates from the period of the last monarchs of the Avis dynasty,
and it is one of the most extraordinary churches of the Gothic-Manueline
style in the country. It was built between 1480 and 1510 by the stonemason
masters Martim Lourenço and Pero de Trilho, and decorated by
the royal painters Francisco Henriques, Jorge Afonso, and Garcia Fernandes.
The chapel is intimately linked to the great events of the Portuguese
Overseas Expansion, expressed in the symbols of the monumental and
single nave, topped by an ogival dome: the cross of Christ's Order
and the emblems of the founding kings: D. João II and D. Manuel
I. Legend has it that Gil Vicente, who died in 1536, is buried here.
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15. ST.
BRAS CHAPEL |
 Founded
by King D. João II and the bishop of Évora D. Garcia
de Meneses in the year 1483, it was conceived in the hybrid Gothic-Manueline,
variant of the Moorish style. It was visited in 1490 by the German
intellectual Jerome Munzer, who moved to Portugal to study scientifically
the progress of navigations and Portuguese discoveries along the African
coast. He was knighted in the Royal Palace, by the "Perfect Prince"
and bequeathed to posterity the narrative of the events of the Portuguese
sailors of that period, entitled Itinerarium sive peregrinatio...
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ST. CLAIRE'S MONASTERY |
 Founded
in 1452 by the Bishop of Évora D.Vasco Perdigão, in
the old manor house of the Falcões, its primitive Gothic temple
was consecrated twelve years later by the next prelate, D. Álvaro
da Costa, renowned Cardinal of Alpedrinha, who died in exile in Rome
by opposing the centralist policies imposed on the nobility by King
D. João II. Here Princess D. Joana led a monastic life, according
to the precepts of the franciscan order. She was referred to as the
"Excellent Lady" and was daughter of Henry IV of Castela
and unfortunate fiancée of D. Afonso V, the "African",
who originated the war against the Catholic Kings, culminating in
the Battle of Toro, in 1476. The church's dome is decorated, exuberantly,
with interesting 16th and 17th-century murals of sacred themes, of
pre and proto-Baroque styles.
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