Convento do Carmo

The Carmo Convent in Lisbon is a former convent of the Carmelite Order of the Ancient Observance that is located in Largo do Carmo and was built, overlooking Rossio (D. Pedro IV Square), on the hill bordering the Castle of São Jorge, in the city and District of Lisbon, Portugal.
The Church, which was once the main Gothic church in the capital, and which, due to its grandeur and monumentality, competed with the Cathedral of Lisbon itself, was left in ruins due to the 1755 earthquake, having not been rebuilt, constituting one of the main witnesses of the catastrophe. still visible in the city.