From Évora's Cathedral to Largo das Portas de Moura
From Évora's Cathedral to Largo das Portas de Moura
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Turning the apse of the Sé, head down the Freiria de Cima street looking for the porches and twinned windows that ornament some of the houses.
Continuing along the streets of Cenáculo and Freiria de Baixo, you come across S. Manços street where there is the House of Garcia de Resende (who was royal secretary, poet and writer). The house boasts three beautiful twinned Manueline windows decorated with small columns and Moorish style points.
Further along, in the Portas de Moura square, in addition to the Mudéjar - Manueline veranda of the Cordovil house, the beautiful renaissance fountain draws all eyes.
The interesting angle of the Sé can be particularly effectively discerned from this spot.
Close by there is the former University of the Holy Spirit founded in 1559 by Cardinal Henrique for the College of the Company of Jesus.
Since 1973, this has been the central building of the current University of Évora, attended by over 8,000 students. In the building, there are the double gallery cloisters. Opening onto the galleries are the rooms still fitted with the antique teaching stands and benches complete with magnificent tiled panels depicting aspects of the various classes taught.
The College Church was well suited to teaching uses as can be seen by the pulpit placed in the very middle of the room and the excellent acoustic conditions. In one of the chapels, there is the great wooden crucifix that is carried at the head of religious processions.
Continuing along the streets of Cenáculo and Freiria de Baixo, you come across S. Manços street where there is the House of Garcia de Resende (who was royal secretary, poet and writer). The house boasts three beautiful twinned Manueline windows decorated with small columns and Moorish style points.
Further along, in the Portas de Moura square, in addition to the Mudéjar - Manueline veranda of the Cordovil house, the beautiful renaissance fountain draws all eyes.
The interesting angle of the Sé can be particularly effectively discerned from this spot.
Close by there is the former University of the Holy Spirit founded in 1559 by Cardinal Henrique for the College of the Company of Jesus.
Since 1973, this has been the central building of the current University of Évora, attended by over 8,000 students. In the building, there are the double gallery cloisters. Opening onto the galleries are the rooms still fitted with the antique teaching stands and benches complete with magnificent tiled panels depicting aspects of the various classes taught.
The College Church was well suited to teaching uses as can be seen by the pulpit placed in the very middle of the room and the excellent acoustic conditions. In one of the chapels, there is the great wooden crucifix that is carried at the head of religious processions.
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