A Manueline abbey gains back its original configuration when freed of additions made over time that overburdened its loadbearing structure and had the effect of distorting its simple proportions.
The 18th-century edifice that completed Portugal’s largest monastery now harbors a hotel establishment that endeavors to highlight the value of the heritage site without stagnating it.
In establishing its foundation, Porto’s most famous bookshop makes one of the country’s earliest constructions coexist with a sculptural pavilion that echoes its volumes on a contemporary note. The premises were reconstructed in the 20th century unde
A monastic complex located on the shore of Lake Victoria gives shelter to a community of Cistercian Trappist monks that was forced to leave Kenya on account of political unrest in the country. The complex – including a church, a novitiate, and a gues
Amelia Tavella has renovated and extended a convent on her native island, Corsica, turning it into a cultural center for the town of of Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano. Immersed in a mountainous landscape, the Convent of Sainte-François, built in 1480, was a
The intervention addresses the historical heritage – ruins of a fifteenth-century monastery – in a neutral and respectful way, minimizing ground contact through light structures and including the construction of a new mixed-use cultural center...
All that remained of the primitive, 12th-century building was the church, whose walls now have a zinc cladding. A pavilion of glass and pine and chestnut wood erected over the ruins completes the complex.
En la Isla de Tautra, en el fiordo de Trondheim, en el corazón del que debió ser el Reino de Thule del Príncipe Valiente, existen las ruinas de un monasterio cisterciense de cuya fundación se han cumplido ochocientos años durante 2007. Monjas de la m
At the beginning of the nineties ten young men abandoned what was then Czechoslovakia to follow their religious convictions and enter the Cistercian abbey of Sept-Fons, in Burgundy. At the end of that same decade, the increasing number of Czech monks
Of barely two thousand inhabitants, Fitero is one of the most visited towns of Navarre. Its greatest touristic attraction is the Cistercien monastery of Santa María la Real, whose construction started in the 12th century. Among the auxiliary spaces w
