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Cemetery cloister. Space that, as the name indicates, was also a place of burial of the monastic community, along with its side chapels and the Church itself.
Built in the first half of the seventeenth century, on parts of the monastery building, presents tosses of Tuscany Arcaria, ceiling in wood coffins, a granite fountain plowed from 1757, eight flower beds and mutilated Pombalino tiles of 1770. in its wing South, strongly ruined by the Great Fire which, in 1894, destroyed the Annex Cloister of the Cafeteria, last the worked carried in granite from the cloister, invocation to S. Mauro and N. Srª, drawn in Rococo style by Frei José de Santo António Vilaça, between 1761 and 1764.
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