Lisbon: Mosteiro dos Jerónimos
Went to Lisbon to present a lecture; not much time for picture taking before the lecture was done. The one on the left is the interior of the Bank of Portugal, part of which was formerly a church and which is being refitted as a museum. The picture on the right is the nearby city hall.
But after the lecture was over, I wandered around the neighborhood of Belem and took lots of pictures in the Jeronimos Monastery, built in the 1500’s and a masterpiece of the Portuguese late-Gothic style.
This first set is from the interior of the church of Santa Maria
Including the tomb of Vasco da Gama
The most spectacular part is the cloister
Off the cloister is the old refectory with its tiled walls