Afonso Álvares (also spelled Affonso Álvares) was the Master of Works for the Portuguese king,

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, and he designed, amongst other structures, the Monastery of São Bento in

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in 1571, which was lost in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, and is now partially the site of the

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. He also designed the

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in 1572.

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*O Recreio Nº 2, Lisbon Imprensa Nacional, February 1839, by Luiz Duarte Villela da Silva Portuguese architects 16th-century Portuguese people Portuguese engineers Year of death missing {{Portugal-architect-stub