PT RR - Surprise Group * January 25

 It's not that I don't have any postcards to show, I just haven't felt like doing so. Today laziness has been overcome and here are the 3 postcards of the RR in Portuguese that I received in January.

 

This was the first postcard that Catarina has ever sent me and she didn't choose badly at all. I confess that I don't know much about Vila Flor and I only have 2 or 3 postcards from there. 

Located in Serra do Facho, between Vila Flor and Roios, on the Senhora da Lapa hill, this is one of the most beautiful viewpoints in the municipality, affectionately nicknamed “Capelinhas”. It consists of a bandstand and 9 chapels, from different periods and types of construction. The chapel dedicated to Santa Marinha is the oldest and the chapel of Senhora da Lapa was built in 1760.

 

Tiago had already sent me a postcard of a water carrier transporting/selling water, here we have several water carriers collecting water from a well.

With this postcard, Celeste told me about the Convento dos Cardaes in Lisbon, a place I'd never heard about before.

The 17th century building is a jewel in the city, on its own right. It survived the 1755 earthquake and is one of the few pre-Pombaline structures in existence today. It houses a significant collection of sacred and decorative arts, preserved over the centuries by devoted sisters. The pride and joy of the Convent is, nevertheless, the social work initiated in the XIX century and still well alive in the presente day: the caring of women with special needs, such as blindness, who call the Convent their home and family. - in: https://www.conventodoscardaes.com