Jerónimos Monastery
Guide
Photo: Holger Uwe Schmitt · CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
≈ A$32ChurchAllow 1–1.5 hPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
A long pale monastery with a two-storey cloister carved like lace in stone, all ropes, sea creatures and twisted columns, and a tall church holding Vasco da Gama's tomb.
A brief history
King Manuel I built it in the 1500s, paid for with the spice trade, and its style of sea-themed carving is now called Manueline after him.
Tips
- Best time
- When it opens, or late afternoon; the queue is longest around midday
- Cost
- About €18 for the cloister (check); the church is free
- Allow
- 1–1.5 h
- Free days
- Free on Sundays and holidays only for residents of Portugal (check)
- Hours
- Usually 9:30–17:30, until 18:00 in summer, closed Mondays (check)
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