Lóios Convent

Largo do Conde de Vila Flor

Lóios Convent
Built in the 15th century on the site of an ancient Medieval castle, this monastery, also known as the Convent of St John the Evangelist, was severely damaged by the 1755 earthquake.

Of rectangular shape, it rises around a cloister with two floors; the ground floor in Gothic-Manueline style and the upper floor with Renaissance characteristics.

The church, in the Manueline style, has a nave with five rectangular sections and is surmounted by a ribbed vault.

The walls are lined with panels of tiles from the 18th century.

The main chapel, polygonal, is covered by a vault of intricate design, with crossed pointed arches, and the walls are lined with tiles from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Chapterhouse was probably planned by Diogo de Arruda and is preceded by a Moorish portal from the beginning of the 16th century.

The old monastery hosts now a pousada.