Jerónimos Monastery

The monastery was commissioned by Manuel I in 1501 and paid for with the tax on spices brought back from the Indies. It took a century to build, and it gave its name to the style born with it: Manueline, limestone carved with ropes, anchors and armillary spheres.

What you come for is the two-storey cloister — forty-five metres a side, every arch cut differently. The ticket covers only the cloister and its adjoining rooms: the church has its own door, and it is free.