Monastery of Jerome: The huge complex (900′ across the front – per measurement in Google earth) includes a church, ginormous courtyard, and a block-long monks dormitory that is now the National Museum of “Arqueologia” – research center and exhibits.  It also houses the Naval  museum noted in a previous post.  Now we see what those monks had to maintain with their tart sales.

Someone trying to get a souvenir out of the deal.

We gave up counting the figures on the façade.  Again, it’s difficult to convey the size of this structure with a pocket camera.    Check out the wide photo in the middle of this Wikipedia site to get a better view. – Laura