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Convent of Beja


Museu Rainha Dona Leonor is a museum housed in the former Convent of Beja, Portugal.

The convent was founded in 1495. The convent of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, a congregation of Poor Clares in Beja, was the setting for the romance between nun Mariana Alcoforado and a French officer, as retold in Mariana (1997) and other novels.

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