Location: Guimarães, Portugal
Architect: Fernando Távora
Model Scale: 1: 100
Year: 1972-1985
Known as convento santa marinha da costa – guimarães, in the 20th century, the intention to convert the former monastery into an inn, with a project by the architects. Lixa Felgueiras, Fernando Távora and Conceição e Silva, provided the realization of one of the most important archaeological campaigns, in medieval buildings, in our country.
This site has ancient remains of a pre-Romanesque temple. However, according to tradition, the convent was founded in 1154 by Queen Mafalda, wife of D. Afonso Henriques, who donated it to the Canons Regular of Santo Agostinho. In 1528 this religious order was replaced by the monks of S. Jerónimo.
In front of the temple there is a staircase from the second half of the 18th century, and ascending it, we reach the church, with a rococo façade, inside which there is a remarkable group of religious sculptures. This building also has carpet tiles (17th century), and historic tiles that made the Varanda de Frei Jerónimo famous. The convent part, after a fire that deeply damaged it, in 1951, underwent restoration and is currently transformed into a Inn.
