
This is the Mosteiro de Jeronimos, Belem, where, amongst others, Vasco da Gama is buried.
Of the dozens of pictures - day, night,black & white, colour, film, digis - I've shot of & around the monastery, I've narrowed down to these, to show you most of the frontal façade, then details which are a revelation in the art of 16th-century Manueline architecture.




5 comments:
What a extraordinary building. the details are amazing and the carving quite sublime. Strangely enough, i like the angle of photo 3...;-p
It's so ornate - the last one reminds me of a sand castle made of drippings!
Muito obrigado.
que magnífica arquitectura! el trabajo de los espacios urbanos y la perspectiva dirigida al cielo, me encantan!
the memories that place brings back...
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