Identifier: lisboncintrawith00inch (find matches)
Title: Lisbon & Cintra; with some account of other cities and historical sites in Portugal
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Inchbold, A Inchbold, Stanley
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Portugal Lisbon (Portugal) -- Description and travel Sintra (Portugal) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nalhistory, the mosque of the ancient Moors; it was theMecca which gave its name to the long broad terraceoutside the door that gives ingress to the public. Thebeautiful mosaic pavement of azulejos in the chapel, withits coloured design, giving the impression of an easterncarpet, is original, and considered equal in beauty to thefamous mosaics of Cordova. The Conde de Juromenhastates that restorations in the chapel before the earth-quake covered up ancient paintings of the fifteenth century.The mudejar ceiling of the interior, which in its rich,warm, yet subdued colouring, preserves the primitivefeeling of the Moorish decorative art, dates from D. Joao I,early in the fifteenth century. The pillar supporting thechoir is beheved to be anterior in date to the monarchy.Theglamour of tradition tempts one to linger in this minia-ture temple, conjuring up the figures of history whoentered here to make their orisons. Moorish emirs andbeys made a praying carpet of the floor of azulejos. D. 142
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The Moorish Palace Joao I and Philippa knelt here. Within these walls DSebastiao nurtured the ambitious dream of glory in thecause of religion, which burst its ephemeral life in thetragic defeat of Alcager Kebir, destroying with it theflower of Portugals nobility, and the dreamer himself.Here^D. Affonso V, who was born and died in the Palace,was baptized; above in the niche of the choir-loft D.Affonso, the captive, sat for hours in gloomy retrospec-tion. Here were celebrated the festivals of music we readof in Beckfords inimitable letters, given by the famousorchestra of the chapel in the reign of D. Maria I, soadmirable that not even that of the Pope could excel thequality of the performances. The Manuehne annex is very characteristic of itsperiod. The front is to the south, with six beautiful win-dows, and another one further back, which has twocovered verandahs, now enclosed with glass. North andeast are other graceful windows. The rooms of the QueenDowager, D. Maria Pia, to whom t

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