Museum building · 1519-c.1560
Convent of Nossa Senhora da Assunção (Municipal Museum)
Convento de Nossa Senhora da Assunção / Museu Municipal de Faro
Queen Leonor founds a Poor Clares convent on Roman fish-salting tanks and the old Jewish quarter.
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An early Renaissance cloister 16th c.
Afonso Pires builds one of the first Renaissance cloisters of its type in Portugal.
A queen's convent in the Jewish quarter 1519
Queen Leonor founds a Poor Clares convent on Roman fish-salting tanks and the old Jewish quarter.
Nuns out, cork in 1834
After the orders are abolished, the convent passes to private owners; one use is a cork factory.
A museum for the city 1960
The municipality buys the building for its library and museum.
Convent of Nossa Senhora da Assunção (Municipal Museum) on the map of Faro