Capuchos Convent
Austere sixteenth-century friary tucked among granite boulders, its tiny cells lined with cork.
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This guide to the Capuchos Convent in the hills above Sintra follows the eight Franciscan friars who arrived in fifteen sixty and the daily work of living inside granite. It turns on cork, the forest they guarded, and the low doorways that shaped every movement, with a Spanish king passing judgement along the way. Best heard standing at one of the cork-lined cell doors.
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