During my recent travels, I visited the Convent of Christ at Tomar in Central Portugal.
Known by art historians as being of the Manueline style, the windows are the most fanciful I have ever been lucky enough to see.
More on the beautiful town of Tomar and its castle and convent at a later date.
For today, just a little tempter….
Round window above the main chapter house window, see below.
The famous chapterhouse window, made by Diogo de Arruda in 1510-1513.
It was poppy time in Portugal and I can’t resist adding poppies into Portugal posts!
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I’ve only been here once, but it totally blew me away! 🙂
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Yes indeed, it is a spectacular town and convent, a proper post to come! Thanks Kev for commenting….
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I agree, the Manueline style is a little overblown.
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Indeed, and agreed, it’s very OTT, but when you look at the work that went into creating, you can’t help being awed by the carving and devotion to create the style..
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Those ARE fancy windows! And I love the poppies. We used to have poppies, but they all died away. 😦
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They are so fanciful and amazing to see, such work, such effort, and such an incredible result! The poppies were also just beautiful, a work of nature, more to come, they were blooming everywhere, thanks for your comment Maris, much appreciated…
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