Trindade Brewery

This guide to the Trindade Brewery in Lisbon traces the convent that stood here from 1294, home to friars of the Holy Trinity whose mission was ransoming Christian captives from Moorish pirates. You'll hear how the building survived the 1755 earthquake that gave Lisbon the phrase for total catastrophe, and a fire just thirteen days after it reopened, before Portugal's 1834 dissolution of religious orders ended the friars' five centuries here. Look for the azulejo tile panels lining the walls, allegories of the seasons and the elements installed where devotional paintings once hung.