Spirit of 1512 - Exquisite taste in the heart of Alfama

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- deep cleaning for each stay (following WHO recommendations)
- we are keeping a gap of 72h between check ins
- our staff uses masks and gloves
- isolation area available for shoes to keep your house safe
- hygiene gel available
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The convent was built in the beginning of 1512, belonged to the order of the oratorio was therefore a symbol of the Oratorio order, the star. This fireplace, and initially the okitchen stove, where everyday meals were cooked. The two small rooms were once the salting and a water area, where there is still a trace of a pit behind the wall. The kitchen and bathroom were in the sixteenth century the corridors of access to the entire residential area of the convent.
In 1755 with the earthquake the convent collapsed leaving only this vestige of what was a religious building of the sixteenth century. Two graves were found when the reconstruction of the space to became an apartment in 2013, as well as several elements of daily use and ornamental stones. The fireplace one´s can observe the iron staple that has been placed to hold the main stone that broke on December 1st, 1755, the day of all saints.
Called Convento do Paraiso, who named the street, this convent was part of the religious complex, which included also the Eremida of Our Lady of Paradise and the National Pantheon. Rebuilt in the eighteenth century is now a residential building. In the building entrance, on the right you can observe the lime stone door to one of the chapels