San Francisco Building | Memories

In the room next to the Museum’s reception, where visitors usually start their discovery of the exhibitions, the history of this convent space and the institutions that have occupied it over the decades and even centuries is presented.

This story begins with the settlement and the installation of Franciscan religious near the Ribeira dos Moinhos in houses donated by Afonso Gonçalves d’Antona Baldaia, the Old Man of St. Francis, and continues today with the activities carried out by this museum. It is therefore a question of remembering the lives of those religious, which remain inscribed on the walls of this 17th century building, and the memories of the Angra Lyceum that still live in those who attended it.