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unusual facts about Nossa Senhora da Conceição


Muxima

The image of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, better known as Nossa Senhora da Muxima, is the most popular in Angola and in the whole of África, receiving annually more than 1 million pilgrims.



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Isidore Bonheur

Also in 1894, Bonheur was awarded the status of Knight in the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa (Cavaleiro da Ordem de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Vila Viçosa), Portugal.

Renaissance architecture in Portugal

The definitive abandonment of Gothic architecture and the first "pure" Renaissance structures appear later in the 16th century, under King John III, like the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Tomar (1532–40), the Porta Especiosa of Coimbra Cathedral and the Graça Church at Évora (c. 1530-1540), as well as the cloisters of the Cathedral of Viseu (c. 1528-1534) and Convent of Christ in Tomar (John III Cloisters, 1557–1591).