Portugal
Cathedral of St. James the Great, Beja
Cathedral · Beja (Santiago Maior e São João Baptista)
Church building
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição
Portugal
Beja (Salvador e Santa Maria da Feira)
National Monument of Portugal
About
Museu Rainha Dona Leonor ("Queen Eleanor Museum") is a museum housed in the former Convent of Beja, Portugal.
The convent was founded in 1495. The convent of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, a congregation of Poor Clares in Beja, was the setting for the romance between nun Mariana Alcoforado and a French officer, as retold in Mariana (1997) and other novels.
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