CONVENTO DE SANTA CLARA
(CONVENT OF SANTA CLARA)
The Convento de Santa Clara was built in the 16th
century by order oof Canon Baltazarde Andrade. It was one of the most important
and richest convents of Guimaraes, becoming famous for the delicious pastries
that the nuns confected and sold. One of the best known of those pastries is
toucinho do ceu” and the other is “tortas de Guimaraes”, these pastries can
still be enjoyed in the more traditional pastry shops of the city. The baroque
façade of the building has, on a niche above the portal , the image of the
patron saint.
On either side, 2 seraphs
hold a tablet with the inscription , 1741, the year in which the
existing façade of the 1834, year in which religious orders were dissolved . In
1891, the Seminar of Nossa Senhora da Oliveira installed itself on the premises.
Since 1975 ,the building houses the services of the City Council of Guimaraes.
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