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3 São Vicente
de Fora
Largo de São Vicente. Map 8 E3.
Tel 218 824 400. @ 712, 734. v 28.
Open 8:30am–5pm Tue–Sat, 8:30am–
noon Sun. Museum: Open 10am–
6pm Tue–Sun. Closed public hols.
5 Mass 9am Tue–Fri, 10am Sun.
& to museum.
St Vincent was proclaimed
Lisbon’s patron saint in 1173,
when his relics were transferred
from the Algarve, in southern
Portugal, to a church on this
site outside (fora) the city walls.
Tile panel showing pre-earthquake Praça do Comércio, Santa Luzia Designed by the Italian architect
1 Miradouro de and 18th-century antiques Filippo Terzi, and completed
in 1627, the off-white façade
Santa Luzia displayed in this handsome is sober and symmetrical, in
four-storey mansion are many Italian Renaissance style, with
Rua do Limoeiro. Map 8 D4. v 28.
fine pieces in exotic woods, towers either side and three
The terrace by the church of including an 18th- arches leading to the entrance
Santa Luzia provides a sweeping century rosewood hall. Statues of saints
view over the Alfama and the backgammon and Augustine, Sebastian
Tagus river. Distinctive land- chess table. Also of and Vincent can
marks, from left to right, are the note are the collec- be seen over
cupola of Santa Engrácia, the tions of 18th-century the entrance.
church of Santo Estêvão and silver and Chinese The adjoining
the two startling white towers porcelain and hand- former Augustinian
of São Miguel. While tourists embroidered wool monastery, reached
admire the views, old men play carpets from Arraiolos. via the nave, retains its
cards under the bougainvillea- The spacious rooms 16th-century cistern
clad pergola. The south wall still retain some and vestiges of the
of Santa Luzia has two modern original ceilings 18th-century china former cloister, but it
tiled panels, one of Praça and azulejo panels. cutlery case, Museu de is visited mainly for its
do Comércio before it was In the adjoining Artes Decorativas 18th-century azulejos.
flattened by the earthquake, the building are work- Among the panels in
other showing the Christians shops where artisans the entrance hall off the first
attacking the Castelo de São preserve the techniques cloister there are lively, though
Jorge (see pp40–41) in 1147. of cabinet-making, gilding, historically inaccurate, tile scenes
book-binding, wood-carving of Afonso Henriques attacking
2 Museu de Artes and other traditional crafts. Lisbon and Santarém. Around
the cloisters, the tiled rural
Temporary exhibitions,
Decorativas lectures and concerts are scenes are surrounded
also held in the palace. by floral designs and cherubs,
Largo das Portas do Sol 2. Map 8 D3.
Tel 218 881 991 or 218 814 600. illustrating the fables of La
@ 737. v 12, 28. Open 10am–5pm Fontaine. A passageway leads
Wed–Mon. Closed 1 Jan, 1 May, behind the church to the old
25 Dec. & 7 ∑ fress.pt refectory, transformed into
the Bragança Pantheon in
Also known as the Ricardo 1885. The stone sarcophagi of
do Espírito Santo Silva almost every king and queen
Foundation, the museum was are here, from João IV, who
set up in 1953 to preserve the died in 1656, to Manuel II, last
traditions and increase public king of Portugal. Only Maria I
awareness of the Portuguese and Pedro IV are not buried
decorative arts. The foundation here. A stone mourner kneels
was named after a banker at the tomb of Carlos I and his
who bought the 17th-century son Luís Felipe, assassinated
Palácio Azurara in 1947 to in Praça do Comércio in 1908.
house his fine collection of The church now operates as
furniture, textiles, silver and Cloister of São Vicente de Fora, with tiled a museum, with access to the
ceramics. Among the 17th- decorative panels Bragança Pantheon.

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