Igreja de São Vicente de Fora
The Church and Monastery of São Vicente de Fora—Igreja e Mosteiro de São Vicente de Fora—is where Lisbon’s medieval patronage meets royal ambition. The original monastery was founded around 1147 by Afonso Henriques, the first King of Portugal, for the Augustinian Order, in a Romanesque form outside the city walls. Its dedication to Saint Vincent of Saragossa links the site to Lisbon’s identity: the saint’s relics were brought to the city from the Algarve in the 12th century. What you see today comes from a later power shift. After the 1580 succession crisis, King Philip II of Spain became King of Portugal (as Philip I) and ordered a full reconstruction: the church was built between 1582 and 1629, with Mannerist design attributed to Filippo Terzi and/or Juan de Herrera. Reconstruction continued even after 1755, when an earthquake damaged the church. …
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