PORTO: Igreja dos Carmelitas Descalços

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Porto Churches: Igreja do Carmo & Igreja dos Carmelitas

“The Igreja do Carmo and Igreja dos Carmelitas, at the corner of Praça de Carlos Alberto and Rua do Carmo, are two churches in Porto that stand almost side by side.

The two churches are separated by a very narrow (1 meter wide) house that was inhabited until the 1980's.

Casa Escondida
The 3-storey house Casa Escondida ("Hidden House") was, according to legend, built so that the two churches would not share a common wall and to prevent any relations between the nuns of Igreja dos Carmelitas and the monks of Igreja do Carmo.

Another, more prosaic reason, and more likely the correct one, is that the building was constructed for purely aesthetic reasons to prevent an unsightly gap between the two churches.

The house served as a residence for chaplains and it also housed the artists who worked on the interior and exterior decoration of the churches as well as doctors serving at the Igreja do Carmo's hospital.

Various secret meetings took place at the house during the French invasion of Portugal by Napoleon and the Siege of Porto in 1832-1833.

The house is open to visitors with an entrance ticket to the Igreja do Carmo's museum and has various bedrooms, a living room and kitchen.”
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Igreja do Carmo (Carmo Church), Porto
“One of the oldest buildings in the historic part of Porto, Igreja do Carmo is actually a combination of two buildings: one dating from the 1600s and the other from the 1700s. Originally, it was built for the Carmelite order of the Roman Catholic Church and was used as a convent. The Baroque style structure features golden woodwork in the interior along with neoclassical tiles. It has a classic façade with a bell tower. The oldest of the two parts of the church – built with a single nave – has seven altars created by Francisco Pereira Campanhã.

The exterior wall of the building is covered in tiles depicting the history of the Carmelite order. Connecting the right and the left side of the structure is a narrow building which measures only one meter in width and was meant originally to keep the monks separated from the nuns of the convent, thus preserving the nuns' chastity and helping the monks keep their vows of celibacy.”

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