Through the cloister arches
Belém · 2 July 2024
One bay of the cloister framing the next, a trick of Manueline stonework that repeats at every turn of the walkway. The style is named for King Manuel I and lasted barely thirty years, from the 1490s to the 1520s - the exact span in which Portugal reached India and Brazil - and it is the only architectural style that carves ropes, anchors and coral into the stone, because that was what paid for it.
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