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At the back of the cloister of Santa Croce’s Franciscan monastery adjoining the church, Brunelleschi’s Pazzi Chapel (Cappella dei Pazzi) is a little gem of Renaissance elegance designed in 1443.
The Monestir de Pedralbes in Pedralbes has a superb Gothic church with a charming two-story cloister and part of the excellent Thyssen-Bornemisza art collection, including important works from the medieval to Italian Baroque periods (the major part of which is housed in the Thyssen museum in Madrid).
The Convento de Nossa Senhora da Assunção (Convent of Our Lady of the Assumption), the first Renaissance building in the Algarve, contains what is arguably the most beautiful cloister in southern Portugal.
The famous set of frescoes in the tomb of Prince Zhanghuai depicts an animated polo match, a hunting expedition, a reception for foreign diplomats, and (most movingly) a scene in a court cloister with a young concubine looking longingly at a bird in flight.
The grand Renaissance-style Claustro Principal (Great Cloister) was added in the 16th century.