at a glance

it also keeps many other original features including the ceiling frescos, wood carved furniture and the floor made of portuguese marble stone.

like every historical building, this convent has a significant cargo of important events on its registry - it was also here that a great part of the history of brazil as a country was plotted and started taking shape.  

it was here that in 1822 dom pedro i announced that he would stay in brazil, setting the stage for the independence of brazil.

in 1824, frei sampaio, one of the monks, wrote the first amendments of the brazilian constitution.