Mujeres Colombianas Follando 15

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In just 30 minutes, the tram body of the Companhia Carris de Ferro Lisbon I moved from the Praça da Figueira in The Baixa , to the district of Belém , which stands on the site of the chapel was Restelo , the Jeronimos Monastery.

The project, intended to commemorate the success of the expedition led by Basque de Gama to India, was really the funeral of Manuel I craving to ensure posterity, if not glory, in a magnificent mausoleum paid with a slice of the taxes raised from the eastern spice trade . Initially assigned to the master of French origin Boytac Diogo, was, from 1516, under the direction of Spaniard Juan del Castillo, who designed most of the building we now know, combining imperial iconography particular Manueline late-Gothic trend, platerescos decorative motifs and architectural renaissance. Miscellaneous syncretic very gimmicky, and very consistent, of course, with messianic pretensions sovereign who is called to be believed, by divine appointment, the unifier of the Western Christian world with the mythical kingdom eastern Prester John . There is nothing the Manolillo. Not even our Philip II, with more arguments than Luso, showed that more than megalomania ... also sit, noblesse oblige, in another monastery, Renaissance and Herrera in this case expressly commanded building as a royal pantheon. And is that while the subjects equals death, Hispanic or all-Lusitanian-peninsular, in the anonymity of a cemetery, also distinguishes the heroes, Habsburg or Avis, with the magnificence of his catafalque. Rest in peace, in any case, the ones and others.

Monastery

Southern Home

But what was. I got off the tram on a gray and windy afternoon that threatens to flushing the stones with a downpour Atlantic, and I stand in front of the southern doorway. The first impression is that I am contemplating a giant gold work that, despite the motley of its frills, not lost in a rococo mannerisms of bias - I hate - but, rather, is stylized in the front of their statues and pinnacles, and the key slots on the flaming of ogee arch, topped by a statue of Our Lady of Belém after opening a window. Just below, in the tympanum of the arch is the coat of Portugal and several scenes from the life of St. Jerome. On both sides of the cover, trellises spans two slender glass house the significant from the ship.

cloister ribbed vault

Walking the west facade , find the line of tourists who enter the monastery via a short staircase. Satisfied the inevitable amount of the check (7 euros), down a hallway inside me that from the back of the room, leading directly to the cloister. Homer and two floors, opens onto a sunny patio - a low circular fountain in the center and a polygonal grass beds - which gives all the attention to the tone even carved stone oil, although the arches acquires a amber hue. The cloister is lavishly decorated with Manueline (armillary spheres topped with M, first letter of the monarch, or crosses of Christ Ordem , the Portuguese Crown Militia Dei Or knots sailors or plant a number of reasons.)

I walk the cloister opposite to the clockwise and I discover the Chapter House, which houses an exhibition on the life and work of Alexandre Herculano, and in a niche, as a defiant anachronism, the monolith that marks the Instead, they say, where lie since 1985 the remains of Fernando Pessoa and heteronymous.

Senate

And so I come to the refectory , a large rectangular room covered with a ribbed vault in its walls decorated with a frieze of carved stone, resembling a double rope, under which it has a perimeter side polychrome tiles of the eighteenth century, representing scenes from the Old and New Testaments .

Refectory

end of the visit of the lower floor, accessed by a stairway that opens austere in the south gallery of the cloister and leads to the upper floor and connected to the choir loft - the place where prayer was held Community stalls splendid -. Since its stone balustrade, which is located a large crucified, we have an excellent view of the nave and the dome of the church polilobulated Belém.

Stairway to galleries upper and the chorus

Choir Stalls

And here I take leave without more, because the images are sufficiently illustrative of the grandeur of the work ; only, perhaps, recall the dictum master Claude Levi-Strauss that prevents us from the banality and the transience of things: the only value that justifies the existence is the beauty of the show, but when have dissipated the last fireworks, will not stand nothing. Kisses from Lisbon.