Twinned capital
13th century
Granite
Provenance: Guimarães, Cloister of the Mosteiro de Santa Marinha da Costa
MAS L 23
Convent of Santa Marinha da Costa was a small temple built during the late 9th century. Became a monastery in the 11th century, then given to the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine in the following century. In 1528, a Papal Bull transferred it to the priests of the Order of Saint Jerome, who extended it and established a College of preparatory studies in the humanities and the arts. With the extinction of religious orders in Portugal in 1834, it was sold at auction; it was bought by the Portuguese State in 1972.