DESCRIPTION

Full official designation: Museum centre of the Convent of Cardaes / Convent of Cardaes

Mission and nature

Promote the dissemination, conservation and presentation to the public of the old Convent of Our Lady of the Conception of Cardaes and its artistic collection, through its opening to the public, the exhibition of the collection and the development of various cultural and social events, whose revenues tend to be applied in the preservation of the heritage and in the social and charity work of the Association Our Lady Consolation of the Afflicted.

History

The Convent of Cardaes was originally a monastery of the Discalced Carmelites, founded in 1681 by Luísa de Távora and, in the context of the suppression of the reli See more