The Mosteiro dos Jerónimos in Lisbon

We visited the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos in Belem, just outside of Lisbon.  It was built in the early sixteenth century to commemorate the voyages of Vasco de Gama (and to spend some of the ensuing  profit).   The architecture is like nothing I have ever seen before; officially called the Manueline style, I would describe it as Art Nouveau Gothic.   It features the bones of Gothic style, but with elaborate and fanciful decorations that bring Art Nouveau to mind.   I'm not quite sure how all this elaborate style fit in with the notion of a monastery for monks, but I guess they didn't complain too much.

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A ceiling:

The adjacent cathedral