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Convent of Beja

Museum in Beja, Portugal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Convent of Beja
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Museu Rainha Dona Leonor ("Queen Eleanor Museum") is a museum housed in the former Convent of Beja, Portugal.[1]

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Museu Rainha Dona Leonor
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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.

It serves now as the Beja Regional Museum.

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