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    • 2023
      Day 11

      Mosteiros Dos Jeronimus

      May 18, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

      After waiting in the queue for sometime, we went to see this famous 15th century Portuguese site dedicated to St Mary of Belem. Vasco da Gamma’s also buried here The famous pastel de nata, or Portuguese Custard tart is said to have originated hereRead more

    • TravelerPortugal
      Day 4

      St. Jeronimo's Monastery

      September 28, 2022 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

      Lisbon is a city of antiquities and they celebrate by setting up many museums. We could not possibly go to all of them. But we wanted to see the Castle of St. Jorge (yesterday's post), St. Jeronimo's Monastery, the Monument of the Discoveries, and the National Tile Museum.

      We got up early for the fabulous breakfast at our hotel and proceeded to take the trolley to St. Jeronimo's. Despite getting there before opening time, the line was quite substantial. But even though the air was cool, the sun kept us warm and we were admitted by ten or so at a time. Twenty minutes later we were in the cloisters of the Monastery.

      The space was magnificent in its design, scale and artistry—a lovely place for peaceful contemplation and prayer. At least one could imagine it that way, even in the busyness of your groups and frenetic selfie seekers.      Read more

    • TravelerEurope 2019
      Day 29

      Mosteiro dos Jerónimos

      October 2, 2019 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

      With our Lisboa Card, we didn’t have to wait very long to get in. It is a very impressive monument, and took over 100 years to build. It is a very impressive site, and very elaborately decorated.

      The monastery was designed in a manner that later became known as “Manueline”, a richly ornate architectural style with complex sculptural themes incorporating maritime elements and objects discovered during naval expeditions, carved in limestone. The building embodies the golden age of Portuguese discoveries, and was funded using the profits from the spices Vasco da Gama brought back from India. Vasco da Gama’s tomb lays within the monastery.

      Manuel I selected the religious order of Hieronymite monks to occupy the monastery, whose role it was to pray for the King's eternal soul, and to provide spiritual assistance to navigators and sailors who departed from the port of Restelo to discover lands around the world. This the monks did for over four centuries until 1833, when the religious orders were dissolved and the monastery was abandoned.

      The monastery withstood the 1755 Lisbon earthquake with very little damage. It stood vacant for sometime during the 1800’s and restoration work began in the 1860’s.      Read more

    • TravelerSommer 2018
      Day 66

      Lissabon II

      July 13, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

      Heute fahren wir mit dem Bus nach Belém. Eigentlich ist das ein Vorort von Lissabon, aber man denkt es ist ein Viertel der Stadt. Zuerst schauen wir uns das "Mosteiro dos Jerónimos" an, ein riesiges Kloster. Der Haupteingang der dazugehörigen Kirche ist wunderschön, mit vielen Figuren. Die Kirche kann man umsonst besichtigen. Danach geht es zum "Torre de Belém" und dann zum Seefahrerdenkmal "Padrão dos Descobrimentos". Das hat uns wirklich begeistert. Als Abschluss wollten wir noch zur "Pastéis de Belém" gehen um die "Pastéis de Nata" zu essen, der Andrang ist nicht normal! Die Schlange war über 30m lang auf der Straße! Daher haben wir uns für ein kleines Café drei Häuser weiter entschieden.
      Wir lieben die kleinen Kuchen!!      Read more

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      Day 6

      Lissabon - Belém

      November 2, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

      Mit einer Tageskarte für Metro, Bus und Straßenbahn in der Tasche ging es auf gen Westen nach Belém, einem Stadtteil von Lissabon. Erstes Ziel war das Mosteiro dos Jeronimus. Wie immer schöne alte Kirche, schnieker Kreuzgang, ein bisschen Weihrauch um die Nase... und die übliche Heerschaar an Touristen. Wir standen an ca. vierzigster Stelle, nach uns füllte sich der komplette Platz und gefühlte weitere 5.000 kamen dazu🤷🏼‍♂️ Zum Glück waren wir schnell durch und entkamen dem Massentourismus gut👍🏼 Drinnen war‘s schön, gab viel zu sehen inklusive Grab von Vasco da Gama.

      Danach ging‘s zum Torre de Belém einem Turm von fünfzehnhundertirgendwann... riesen Schlange davor, Foto von außen gemacht, für toll befunden und damit für besichtigt erklärt.

      Wetter war top, Snacks und Käffchen lecker... alles bestens.

      Ach ja, übrigens Snacks: die berühmtberüchtigten Patel de Natas wurden hier angeblich erfunden, heißen schlauerweise dann eben Patel de Belém, schmecken auch vorzüglich, is halt mit Schlange stehen verbunden, wenn welche haben will... wir wollten👍🏼      Read more

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    • TravelerPortugal 2018
      Day 5

      Jeronimos cloister

      June 10, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      this is the Cloister attached to the church.

      Rick steeves: this restored cloister is the architectural highlight of Belam. the lacy arcade is Manueline, the simpler diamond and decorative rose frieze above the top floor is Renaissance. Study the carvings, especially eh gargoyles above the lower set of arches. among these functioning rainspots, find a monkey, a kitten and a cricket. Heads of states are often received in the cluster with a warm welcome. Many treaties have been signed here (Portugal's admittance in the European Union 1986) -rick stoves

      Each column was different, the tops of them were different, Animal motifs, birds, griffins, phoenix, dragons, some eating the tails of others. The flora, again different vines, fruits, flowers , nuts. the time it must have taken to carve all this and for the monks to contemplate it all....      Read more

    • TravelerPortugal 2018
      Day 5

      Monastery of Jeronimos south portal

      June 10, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      more details from the south portal.

      The different saints all have some sort of symbolic thing with their carvings I think. this from a later display in side the cloister:
      St Augustine, has has bishop like hat
      St Paul, a sword
      St Mathew , a child
      St John, an eagle
      St Luke, a bull or ram
      St Mark, a lion

      The central figure is Henry the Navigator, the guy responsible for sending out all these explorers, although he never actually went out himself. ( only one trip I believe into Africa)

      on either side of the door are two medallions thought to be king Manual and his spanish queen Isabella...

      The other carving shows a scene of the crucifixion I think. There is a different style of cross with 2 cross pieces, but I have read something about that in the past, although I can't remember what I read, other than the crosses did have different styles throughout the ages.      Read more

    • TravelerPortugal 2018
      Day 5

      Monastery of Jeronimos, interior

      June 10, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      Rick Steves- the Manueline style is on the cusp of the Renaissance. the space is more open tan earlier medieval churches. Slender palm tee elite coluns don't break the interior space as Gothic columns would. and the ceiling is all one height. Motifs from the sea hide in the doer. The sea brought Portugal 16th century welt and power, making this art possible. You will see rope like arches, ships, and monsters to evoke the mystery of undiscovered elands. artichokes eaten for their vitamin C to fend off scurvy remind us of the hardships sailors faced at sea. ---

      a picture of the Organ player as he is leaving.

      One of the tombs is the empty tomb for the prince who never returned from war. King Sebastiao. The tomb of the longed for Dom Sebastiao stands empty. The young king never returned from batten in 1578 (eyewitness pg 51)

      the design on the ceiling. Each medallion is something different.

      There are 7 confessionals along that wall.

      The renaissance alter. Nearly everything here survived the 1755 quack excel thte stained glass. In the niches surrounding the main altar elephants - a far eastern symbol of power, more powerful and kingly than the lion - supports 2 kings and queens, (king Manual I is front left) Many portuguese churches were renovated in Renaissanceand Baroque times, resulting in an odd mix of dark, older naves and pretty pastel alters. -source rick stoves      Read more

    • TravelerPortugal 2018
      Day 5

      Monastery of Jeronimos Vasco Da Gama tom

      June 10, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      Close up of the Confessionals

      the south portal doors now shut and that cross the order of Christ- on the red cloth. Henry the Navigator was the grand master of the Order of christ. It was the knights of the templar who defeated the moors in the 11th and 12th century

      Vasco Da Gama's tomb with close ups of three symbols on the sides. His ship - a Caraval - that -cross of the order of Christ, and the third symbol -the armillary, the sphere which is the symbol of King Manuelin, but it is his symbol because it was so important to early navigation. that was what allowed the explores to tell latitude.

      Rick steeves _ 1497 Vasco Da Gama (1460-1524) prayed in the small chapel that once stood here, He then set out with 4 ships, 150 men, state of the art maps, and the armillary sphere. a globe surrounded by moveable rings designed to determine the positions of the sun or other stars to help sailors track their position. Da Gama ws to confirm what earlier navigators had hypothesized, that the ocean recently discovered when Bartolomeu Dias round africa's cape of Good Hope was the same one seen by overland travellers to India. And hopefully da Gama would find a direct sea route to India.
      the symbols on the tomb, the cross from the military order of the soldier monks who funded his voyage, the Caravel, (the ship),
      By Christmas Da Gama rounds the cape of good hope after battling hostile ARabs in Mozambique. he arrives on the SW coast in Calicut in may 1498. trades for spices, and networks, heads home and arrives in Lisbon sept 1499. They had been away for 2 years and 2 months.      Read more

    • TravelerPortugal - Algarve & Lissabon
      Day 12

      Mosteiro dos Jerónimos

      June 5, 2015 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

      Das Bauwerk im Stadtteil Belém gilt als bedeutendster Bau der Manuelinik, einer portugiesischen Variante der Spätgotik, die auch einige Elemente der Renaissance enthält. Das Kloster beherbergte bis 1834 den Orden des Heiligen Hieronymus, der dem Kloster auch den Namen gab. 1755 überstand es das Erdbeben ohne größere Schäden, wurde aber durch die Truppen Napoleon Bonapartes Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts verwüstet. Heute beherbergt es die Sarkophage von Fernando Pessoa, Vasco da Gama und verschiedener portugiesi-scher Könige. In den Seitenflügeln befinden sich das Marinemuseum und das Archäologische Museum.Read more

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    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, Mosteiro dos Jeronimos, Hieronymites Monastery, دير جيرونيموس, Жэронімуш, Monestir dels Jerònims, Klášter jeronymitů, Monaĥejo de la hieronimanoj de Belém, Monasterio de los Jerónimos, Jeronimotarren monasterioa, Hieronymuksen luostari, Monastère des Hiéronymites, Mosteiro dos Xerónimos, מנזר זרונימוש, Jeronimitski samostan, Szent Jeromos-kolostor, Híerónýmusarklaustrið, Monastero dos Jerónimos, ジェロニモス修道院, ჟერონიმუშის მონასტერი, 제로니무스 수도원, Šv. Jeronimo vienuolynas, Црква Јеронимо, Hieronymittklostret, Monastèri dels Jeronims, Klasztor Hieronimitów, Жеронимуш, Kláštor hieronymitov, Monasteryo ng mga Heronimos, Jerónimos Manastırı, Жеронімуш, ჟერონიმუშიშ მონასტერი, 熱羅尼莫斯修道院

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