It is located in Largo do Carmo and was built, under Rossio (D. Pedro IV Square), on the hill bordering São Jorge Castle, in the city and district of Lisbon, in Portugal.
The Convento do Carmo de Lisboa is a former convent of the Order of Carmelites of the Ancient Observance located in Largo do Carmo and was built, under the Rossio (Praça de D. Pedro IV), on the hill bordering the Castelo de São Jorge, in the city and district of Lisbon, in Portugal.
The complex that was once the main Gothic church in the capital, and which due to its grandeur and monumentality competed with the Lisbon Cathedral itself, fell into ruins due to the 1755 earthquake and was not rebuilt.
The Carmo Convent in Lisbon is one of the main testimonies of the catastrophe still visible in the city and today the ruins house the Carmo Archaeological Museum.
The ruin of the Convento do Carmo and the neighboring Convento da Trindade that occurred in the earthquake (1755) is the origin of the popular expression: "Cair o Carmo e a Trindade".
The ensemble is rooted in mendicant Gothic with a certain influence from the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória da Batalha, founded by King D. João I of Portugal, and which was also under construction at the time.
Over the centuries it received additions and changes, adapting to new tastes and architectural styles.
The facade of the convent church has a portal with several smooth archivolts with decorated capitals, the rose window above the portal is destroyed.
The south facade of the church is supported by five flying buttresses added in 1399 after a collapse during the church's construction.
The interior has three naves and a chevet with a chancel and four apses. The roof of the nave of the church disappeared with the earthquake, and only the pointed transverse arches that support it are visible today.
The main body of the church and the choir, whose roof resisted the earthquake, were restored and today house an Archaeological Museum with a small but interesting collection.
In the new Museum of the Portuguese Paleolithic and Neolithic period, the highlights are pieces from excavations of a prehistoric fortification near Azambuja (3500 BC - 1500 BC).
The nucleus of Gothic tombs: that of D. Fernando Sanches (early 14th century) decorated with hunting and wild boar scenes, the tomb of King D. Fernando I (1367-1383), a statue of a 13th century king (perhaps D. Afonso Henriques), Roman and Visigothic pieces and two Peruvian mummies.
The complex that was once the main Gothic church in the capital, and which due to its grandeur and monumentality competed with the Lisbon Cathedral itself, fell into ruins due to the 1755 earthquake and was not rebuilt.
The Carmo Convent in Lisbon is one of the main testimonies of the catastrophe still visible in the city and today the ruins house the Carmo Archaeological Museum.
The ruin of the Convento do Carmo and the neighboring Convento da Trindade that occurred in the earthquake (1755) is the origin of the popular expression: "Cair o Carmo e a Trindade".
The ensemble is rooted in mendicant Gothic with a certain influence from the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória da Batalha, founded by King D. João I of Portugal, and which was also under construction at the time.
Over the centuries it received additions and changes, adapting to new tastes and architectural styles.
The facade of the convent church has a portal with several smooth archivolts with decorated capitals, the rose window above the portal is destroyed.
The south facade of the church is supported by five flying buttresses added in 1399 after a collapse during the church's construction.
The interior has three naves and a chevet with a chancel and four apses. The roof of the nave of the church disappeared with the earthquake, and only the pointed transverse arches that support it are visible today.
The main body of the church and the choir, whose roof resisted the earthquake, were restored and today house an Archaeological Museum with a small but interesting collection.
In the new Museum of the Portuguese Paleolithic and Neolithic period, the highlights are pieces from excavations of a prehistoric fortification near Azambuja (3500 BC - 1500 BC).
The nucleus of Gothic tombs: that of D. Fernando Sanches (early 14th century) decorated with hunting and wild boar scenes, the tomb of King D. Fernando I (1367-1383), a statue of a 13th century king (perhaps D. Afonso Henriques), Roman and Visigothic pieces and two Peruvian mummies.
The Carmo Archaeological Museum
The Carmo Archaeological Museum is located in the ruins of the Carmo Convent in the city and district of Lisbon, in Portugal.
The Museum was founded in 1864 by the first president of the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists, Joaquim Possidónio Narciso da Silva (1806-1896).
Its main objective was to safeguard the national heritage that was becoming dilapidated and deteriorating as a result of the extinction of the Religious Orders and the countless damages suffered during the French invasions and liberal wars.
At the end of the 19th century, the Count of São Januário, also president of the Association, offered the Museum part of his private collection of pre-Columbian ceramics, and two mummies from the same period.
This "exotic" collection today constitutes one of the Museum's main attractions as it is the only Portuguese museum, and one of the few in Europe, to have two mummies on permanent display.
The last quarter of the 19th century and the third quarter of the 20th century brought important collections of Pre- and Proto-Historic Archeology to the Museum from different archaeological excavations: the Vila Nova de São Pedro collection (Azambuja - Chalcolithic period - 3500-2500 BC) and currently has around a thousand artefacts on permanent display.
In the Museum's collection: the "Sarcophagus of the Muses" (Roman, 3rd-4th centuries AD), the tomb of King Ferdinand I of Portugal (a masterpiece of Gothic sculpture in the country, recently restored), four alabaster slabs with scenes from the Passion of Christ carved in bas-relief, from the Nottingham workshops (mid-15th century), the tomb of Queen Maria Anne of Austria in baroque style, 14 tile panels representing the Passion of Christ in baroque style, collection of 101 coats of arms, highlighting the tombstone with the coat of arms of Fernão Álvares de Andrade (16th century) based on a drawing by Francisco de Holanda.
In 2002, the Museum's Educational Service was created to carry out guided tours, and the Bookstore/Store space where the public can purchase scripts, brochures and publications from the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists.
The Museum was founded in 1864 by the first president of the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists, Joaquim Possidónio Narciso da Silva (1806-1896).
Its main objective was to safeguard the national heritage that was becoming dilapidated and deteriorating as a result of the extinction of the Religious Orders and the countless damages suffered during the French invasions and liberal wars.
At the end of the 19th century, the Count of São Januário, also president of the Association, offered the Museum part of his private collection of pre-Columbian ceramics, and two mummies from the same period.
This "exotic" collection today constitutes one of the Museum's main attractions as it is the only Portuguese museum, and one of the few in Europe, to have two mummies on permanent display.
The last quarter of the 19th century and the third quarter of the 20th century brought important collections of Pre- and Proto-Historic Archeology to the Museum from different archaeological excavations: the Vila Nova de São Pedro collection (Azambuja - Chalcolithic period - 3500-2500 BC) and currently has around a thousand artefacts on permanent display.
In the Museum's collection: the "Sarcophagus of the Muses" (Roman, 3rd-4th centuries AD), the tomb of King Ferdinand I of Portugal (a masterpiece of Gothic sculpture in the country, recently restored), four alabaster slabs with scenes from the Passion of Christ carved in bas-relief, from the Nottingham workshops (mid-15th century), the tomb of Queen Maria Anne of Austria in baroque style, 14 tile panels representing the Passion of Christ in baroque style, collection of 101 coats of arms, highlighting the tombstone with the coat of arms of Fernão Álvares de Andrade (16th century) based on a drawing by Francisco de Holanda.
In 2002, the Museum's Educational Service was created to carry out guided tours, and the Bookstore/Store space where the public can purchase scripts, brochures and publications from the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists.
