Jerónimos Monastery
The Jerónimos Monastery, or Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, was built to anchor Portugal’s royal memory to its age of ocean-going. Erected in the early 1500s and tied to Vasco da Gama’s first voyage, it was funded by a tax on the profits of the yearly Portuguese India Armadas—an architectural bill paid from global trade. The church became the 16th-century necropolis of the House of Aviz, and its royal service continued into the burial plans of King Manuel I and John III, whom da Gama had served. In 1880, the monastery’s nave received new carved tombs for da Gama’s remains and for the poet Luís de Camões, whose 1572 epic *The Lusiad* celebrates da Gama’s journey. The dynasty’s chapter closed with secularization: by state decree on 28 December 1833, the monastery was secularized and ownership transferred to the charitable institution Real Casa Pia de Lisboa. …
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