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The Historian · Rui · Lisbon

Convento do Carmo

Chiado · Ruined Convent · $

They never rebuilt the roof. This skeleton is the honest monument to the quake that killed tens of thousands.

The roofless Gothic convent left in ruins as the 1755 earthquake's memorial — its archaeology museum sits under open sky.

— Rui, The Historian
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