Manueline Cloister Pena National Palace

Categories: Projects

Date: 28th February 2018

Project: Conservation and restoration intervention of the Manueline Cloister of the Pena National Palace

Year: 2017/18

Location: Sintra

Background: Pena´s National Palace

Description: The following elements were intervened: the ceramic coverings of the façades and floor of the Cloister; the Chapel of S. Jerónimo (integrated in the Lower Gallery and characterized by the cladding with decorative technique of embeddings) and the railing of the roof of the Cloister.

Intervention:

The intervention aimed at suspending the current degradation mechanisms; delay future degradation; the correction of structural misalignments; replacing poor quality replicas. aesthetic correction of changes caused by degradation factors.

Duration: 12 months

Team: 6 people

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