Example sentences for: manueline

How can you use “manueline” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The town has an enviable collection of Manueline buildings and attracts hordes of visitors during the spring to see flowering almond blossoms in the local orchards.

  • The town’s largest church, on Praça da República, is the richly painted Nossa Senhora da Assunção, with an elaborate Manueline portal and belltower overlooking the square.

  • The architecture that eased Portugal from the Gothic into the Renaissance still bears his name: the Manueline style is whimsically flamboyant and decorative, and rife with references to the sea.

  • In the south of the city is the Marvila church, built in Manueline style, with fine 17th-century azulejos.

  • One is the small but exquisite Torre de Belém, a romantic medieval fortress (particularly when floodlit by night) erected in 1515 to defend the entry to Lisbon and one of the finest examples of Manueline architecture (see page 25).


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