Basílica da Estrela
The Basílica da Estrela (so named after the property of the Infante on which it was built), actually Real Basílica e Convento do Santíssimo Coração de Jesus ("Royal Basilica and Convent of the Sacred Heart of Jesus "), is a church and a historic Carmelite monastery in Lisbon .
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The later royal couple Maria I and Peter III. vowed to erect a church if they were given a male heir to the throne. The heir to the throne, Joseph , was born in 1761. With her accession to the throne in 1777, Maria commissioned the construction of the church, which began in 1779. It wasn't completed until 1790, after Prince Joseph succumbed to smallpox in 1788 .
The baroque church on a hill in the west of the city was designed and built first by Mateus Vicente de Oliveira and later by José da Costa e Silva . Like the Palácio Nacional de Mafra or the São Vicente de Fora Monastery, it has a double tower facade made of white limestone . The early Classicist bell towers frame a portal decorated with Corinthian columns , figures of saints and allegories . The floor plan of the pillared church shows a Latin cross , the crossing of which bears a dome. The walls and floor of the spacious nave are clad in gray, pink and yellow marble . Some of the frescoes and paintings are by Pompeo Batoni .
The client, Queen Maria I, found her final resting place here after she died in exile in Brazil in 1816. She and the Brazilian Emperor Peter I , who was buried in the Monumento à Independência do Brasil in São Paulo, are the only monarchs of the Portuguese Braganza dynasty who were not buried in the Panteão da Casa de Bragança .
Coordinates: 38 ° 42 '48 " N , 9 ° 9' 38" W.
Web links
- Basic information (Portuguese)
- History and description (web presence of the parish, Portuguese)
- Layout of the facility
Individual evidence
- ↑ Basilica da Estrela (gcatholic.org)