Places
Serra do Pilar Monastery
Diogo de Castilho e João Ruão / Maria João Marques e Paulo Freitas
1537 / 2012
Saturday + Sunday
Casa da Arquitectura
Open Visits
Building with partial access to people with reduced mobility
Tours
Sat 17h00, Architects Paulo Freitas e Maria João Marques / Sun 15h00, Márcia Santos > These visits require RESERVATION, in the link below;
Caleidoscópio
Maximum 25 people per visit
Reservation required
Wheelchair access
Photography allowed
Reservations Sold Out
Reservations available from JUNE 26 at 2pm in this website
Description
Male monastery of the Order of Santo Agostinho that started being built in 1537. It stands out from a morphologic point of view, for its church and cloister, both with a circular plan. The cloister with a domed surrounding gallery is sustained by ionic columns carved in the difficult granite stone that builds the city. Whether it’s the circular interior of the church, with a dome on top, or whether it is the exterior also circular of the cloister, open to the sky, (both with the same dimension on the plan) create a sort of allegory of a world apart, closed in itself, a space of inner thought, introspection and silence. Two wings compose the rest of the monastery in particular the north sleeping quarters, with a rhythmic and repetitive façade only interrupted now and then by volumes that mark vertically the dominant horizontal of the building that overlooks the river and the city.
Location
Largo de Aviz
Directions: Google Maps / Apple Maps
Public Transport
Subway: Linha D - Jardim do Morro
Bus: STCP - 900, 901, 904, 905, 906 / Espírito Santo - 12, 14, 15, 17, 31, 39
Train: General Torres