J. Gafarot's photos with the keyword: Santarém

Sitzung.

Happy Day, dear Friends . Wish it will be sunny and peaceful.

Santarém.

Praça da Igreja.

The Tagus Valley. The rain is comimg again.

Formerly known as the Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Colégio dos Jesuítas or as the Church of the Seminary. The current Santarém Cathedral is a 17th century temple erected on the site where the Royal Palace of Alcáçova Nova once stood, a royal residence that It had been abandoned, during the time of D. João II (15th century). In 1647, King João IV donated the ruins to the Society of Jesus so that it could create a school there with a church dedicated to Our Lady of Conception. In 1780, after the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal, Queen Maria I donated the buildings to the Patriarchate of Lisbon for the installation of her Seminary. With the creation of the Diocese of Santarém on July 16, 1975, the church was elevated to a Cathedral.

Rio Tejo. As Portas do Sol.

Since prehistory, the region of Santarém has been inhabited, first by the Lusitani people, and then by the Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, Moors and later Portuguese Christians. Of the various legends related to the foundation of Santarém, the most famous tells of the Visigoth Saint Iria (or Irene), who was martyred in Tomar (Nabantia) and whose uncorrupted body reached Santarém. In her honour, the name of the town (then known by its Latin name Scalabis) would later be changed to Sancta Irene, from which Santarém would eventually be derived.

After the reconquest of the Santarém, the city was frequently visited by the successive monarchs and many feudal parliaments (Cortes) were held in Santarém. King Fernando I, in particular, was very fond of the city and chose to be buried in the Convent of Saint Francis (his tomb is now in the Carmo Museum in Lisbon). The city was one of the most important in medieval Portugal, as attested by its large number of monasteries and its royal palace (no longer standing but was located where the Cathedral currently stands). There are still enough examples of Gothic buildings in the city for it to be known as the "Capital of the Portuguese Gothic".

The river arriving at Santarém, please see PIP. I have never understood why the left bank has great whites ( Almeirim) and the right (Cartaxo), heavy strong reds !

Unlike with past and future styles of art, like the Carolingian style as noted by French art historian Louis Grodecki in his work Gothic Architecture, Gothic's lack of a definite historical or geographic nexus results in a weak concept of what truly is Gothic. This is further compounded by the fact that the technical, ornamentation, and formal features of Gothic are not entirely unique to it. Though modern historians have invariably accepted the conventional use of "Gothic" as a label, even in formal analysis processes due to a longstanding tradition of doing so, the definition of "Gothic" has historically varied wildly. This Franciscan Monastery is a good example of it.