• of the Conception) near what is now called the Morro de São Bento .[2] Because of this, the monastery adopted Our Lady of the Conception as its patron saint.
  • The Monastery of São Bento de N.S.da Conceição emerged approximately twenty years after the foundation of the city of Rio de Janeiro, in 1565.
  • I've never taken an elevator to a 17th century monastery before, but that was only one of several new experiences I had at the Mosteiro do São Bento...
  • Monastery of São Bento. A rather unremarkable facade hides a rare abundance of gems: opulent and gilded carvings from the 17th-century Baroque and Rococo...
  • ...more commonly known as the Mosteiro de São Bento (Monastery of St. Benedict), is a Benedictine abbey located on the Morro de São Bento (St. Benedict Hill)...
  • In the monastery of São Bento, Sergeant-Major Pedro de Arenas was buried with great pomp in 1640, and the monks made a funeral mass in his honour.
  • The São Bento Monastery is open to the public daily from 6:30am to 6:30pm, except Saturdays, when it closes at 5:30pm.
  • The monastery, known as São Bento da Saúde (St. Benedict’s Health) was designed as a large rectangular structure arranged around four cloisters.
  • From there you will visit the Monastery of São Bento, founded in 1590 by 2 monks from Bahia and considered one of the most important heritage of Brazilian...
  • In 1905 the Monastery of Sao Bento de Santos became independent Priory and began a re-flowering of monastic life.
  • Unassuming from the outside, the simple facade of downtown Rio de Janeiro’s Sao Bento Monastery (Mosteiro de Sao Bento) belies its richly decorated and gold...
  • The Sao Bento Monastery was founded in 1582 by Dom Duarte Coelho, the first governor of the Captaincy of Pernambuco.
  • You can keep your money safely stashed away, because it won't cost a thing to explore Sao Bento Monastery.