He recognised that ‘both cloisters, a chapel and other rooms or buildings would be appropriate to a fortified monastery’ and encouraged the architects to take a generous interpretation of medieval ...

A medieval cloister garden is meant “to preserve your ... and it’s hard to walk through these silent halls with their Romanesque and Gothic architecture and not feel surrounded with the ...

Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1977 to 2008, guides viewers through The Cloisters, pointing out Romanesque and Gothic architecture and artwork, beautiful ...

If you're unfamiliar with Portugal's medieval past, a visit to Évora ... Surrounding it is the Gothic cloister, built around 1325. Its elegant architecture is somewhat reminiscent of Hogwarts ...

The Gothic cloister, in the municipality of Aiguamúrcia ... indicating the noble families that they belonged to. The various medieval burials were found in a very good state of conservation ...

Backgammon board (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Hidden beneath the Cloister Garden, which once held the medieval cloisters, are the remains of a different time when the Roman Empire ruled most of ...