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The convent church is a splendid building, with walls completely covered by rare, 17th-century azulejos in geometric patterns, and with a fine painted ceiling.
A “ﬂying nun” in stone (a reference to a convent that occupied number 28 before Parliament) has apparently passed straight through the corner of the building.
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.
Yes, they are cautious, and do not explicity derive Coventry from convent, but they do imply that the word is the source of the name.
Across the square, the ochre-colored former convent, Convento da Graça, is being converted into a pousada (inn) by the Portuguese government.