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Convent Of Beja
Museu Rainha Dona Leonor (" Queen Eleanor Museum") is a museum housed in the former Convent of Beja, Portugal. Fodor's Portugal: Where to Stay, Eat, and Explore -Fodor's - 2001 - Page 171 0679006761 "You can see Roman artifacts and other tokens of Beja's long history at the regional museum housed in the convent ..." Convent The convent was founded in 1495. The convent of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, a congregation of Poor Clares in Beja, was the setting for the romance between nun Mariana Alcoforado and a French officer, as retold in ''Mariana Mariana may refer to: Literature * ''Mariana'' (Dickens novel), a 1940 novel by Monica Dickens * ''Mariana'' (poem), a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson * ''Mariana'' (Vaz novel), a 1997 novel by Katherine Vaz Music *"Mariana", a so ...'' (1997) and other novels. It serves now as the Beja Regional Museum. References External linksOfficial website Museums in Portugal National monuments in Beja District {{Portugal- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Of Viseu
Eleanor of Viseu (2 May 1458 – 17 November 1525; pt, Leonor de Viseu ) was a Portuguese ''infanta'' (princess) and later queen consort of Portugal. She is considered one of her country's most notable queens consort and one of the only two who were not foreigners. To distinguish her from other infantas of the same name, she is commonly known as Eleanor of Viseu (after her father's title) or Eleanor of Lancaster ('' Lancaster'', a name used by some Portuguese royals after her great-grandmother Queen Philippa of Lancaster). In Portugal, she is known universally as ''Rainha Dona Leonor''. Family Eleanor was a daughter of Infante Fernando, Duke of Viseu, and his wife and cousin Beatrice of Portugal. Her maternal grandparents were Infante João of Portugal and his wife and niece Isabel of Barcelos. Eleanor's sister Isabel of Viseu married Fernando II of Braganza, who was later accused and executed of treason by Eleanor's husband King John II. Eleanor's older brother Diogo, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beja, Portugal
Beja () is a city and a municipality in the Alentejo region, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 35,854, in an area of . The city proper had a population of 21,658 in 2001. The municipality is the capital of the Beja District. The present Mayor is Paulo Arsénio, elected by the Socialist Party with an absolute majority in the 2017 Portuguese Local Elections. The municipal holiday is Ascension Day. The Portuguese Air Force has an airbase in the area – the Air Base No. 11. History Situated on a hill, commanding a strategic position over the vast plains of the Baixo Alentejo, Beja was already an important place in antiquity. Already inhabited in Celtic times, the town was later named ''Pax Julia'' by Julius Caesar in 48 BCE, when he made peace with the Lusitanians. He raised the town to be the capital of the southernmost province of Lusitania (Santarém and Braga were the other capitals of the ''conventi''). During the reign of emperor Augustus the thriving town became Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poor Clares
The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare ( la, Ordo sanctae Clarae) – originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and later the Clarisses, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Second Order of Saint Francis – are members of a contemplative Order of nuns in the Catholic Church. The Poor Clares were the second Franciscan branch of the order to be established. Founded by Clare of Assisi and Francis of Assisi on Palm Sunday in the year 1212, they were organized after the Order of Friars Minor (the ''first Order''), and before the Third Order of Saint Francis for the laity. As of 2011, there were over 20,000 Poor Clare nuns in over 75 countries throughout the world. They follow several different observances and are organized into federations. The Poor Clares follow the '' Rule of St. Clare'', which was approved by Pope Innocent IV on the day before Clare's death in 1253. The main branch of the Order (O.S.C.) follows the observance of Pope Urb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariana Alcoforado
Sóror Mariana Alcoforado (Santa Maria da Feira, Beja, 22 April 1640Beja, 28 July 1723) was a Portuguese nun living in the convent of the Poor Clares (Convento de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, ''Convent of Our Lady of the Conception'') in Beja, Portugal. Debate continues as to whether Mariana was the real Portuguese author of the ''Letters of a Portuguese Nun'' (comprising five letters). Her purported love affair with the French officer Noël Bouton, Marquis de Chamilly and later Marshal of France, has made Beja famous in literary circles, mainly in Portugal and France. Some literary scholars consider the letters a fictional work and their authorship is ascribed to Gabriel-Joseph de Lavergne, comte de Guilleragues (1628–1684), although a real nun named Mariana Alcoforado indeed existed. In her recent book '' Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a Seventeenth-Century Forbidden Love'' (2006), the author Myriam Cyr has attempted to reassert the attribution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariana (Katherine Vaz Novel)
''Mariana'' is the 1997 second novel of Katherine Vaz, originally written in English, published by Flamingo/HarperCollin. The novel was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998. The novel has been translated into more than six languages including Portuguese, Italian, and Greek. Plot The plot retells the seventeenth-century romance between Mariana Alcoforado, a nun at the Convent of Beja Museu Rainha Dona Leonor (" Queen Eleanor Museum") is a museum housed in the former Convent of Beja, Portugal. Fodor's Portugal: Where to Stay, Eat, and Explore -Fodor's - 2001 - Page 171 0679006761 "You can see Roman artifacts and other tokens of ..., and an officer in the French army.Reinaldo Francisco Silva ''Portuguese American Literature'' 2009 1847601073 Page 52 "This is also extensible to Katherine Vaz in Saudade and Fado & Other Stories, whereas in Mariana (1997) she focuses on a classical Portuguese love story between a seventeenth-century n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museums In Portugal
This is a list of museums in Portugal. Aveiro *Aveiro City Museum *Casinha de Bonecas *Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva de Aveiro *Museu de Arte Nova *Visionarium (Portugal) Braga *Biscainhos Museum * Braga Cathedral Treasure * D. Diogo de Sousa Museum * Image Museum *Museu da Cultura Castreja *Museu do Traje Dr. Gonçalo Sampaio *Museum Medina * Nogueira da Silva Museum * Pius XII Museum *Stringed Instruments Museum *Alberto Sampaio Museum Coimbra *Academic Prison *Casa Museu Fernando Namora *Conímbriga *Erotic Art Museum of Coimbra *Exploratory - Living Science Center of Coimbra * Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha *Museo de Coimbra *Museu dos Transportes Urbanos de Coimbra *Museo del Agua *Museu da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Coimbra *National Museum Machado de Castro *Science Museum of the University of Coimbra Lagos *Centro Ciência Viva de Lagos *Mercado de Escravos *Museu Municipal Dr. José Formosinho *Núcleo Museológico Rota da Escravatura Leiria *Banco das Arte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
