Cardaes Convent
Baroque convent church unchanged since the seventeenth century, with rare Dutch azulejo panels.
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This guide to Cardaes Convent in Lisbon follows Luisa de Tavora, a wealthy widow born in 1609 who found her first convent too soft and petitioned the king and the Pope to found a stricter one on her family's land. It traces her arrival here in 1681 with four nuns, the unfinished church she never saw completed, and the rare Dutch azulejo panels shipped from Amsterdam depicting Saint Teresa of Avila. Look for her tomb at the center of the hall, carved from pale limestone.
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