Subterranean Asceticism: Bark Insulation and Granite Grottos at the Convento dos Capuchos near Sintra On the fog-laced slopes of the Serra de Sintra, where Atlantic moisture collects against a Cretaceous granite massif year-round, the Convento dos Capuchos occupies the boundary between construction and geology. Founded in 1560, the Franciscan friary […]