Scanned from a stereoview circa 1900
A view of the cloisters at Sao Jeronimo monastery, Lisbon, Portugal.
At the time of the photograph part of the monastery was being used as an orphanage, some of the orphans can be seen in the image
Construction of the monastery commenced in 1501 on the site of an earlier hermitage and was completed 100 years later, it was secularized in 1833 and came under the control of a charity organization
Restoration of the building commenced in the 1890's and in 1883 it was declared a World Heritage Site