Great Cloister of Christ Convent

According to Saramago from the Great Cloister of the Convent of Christ, the cloister is dry and cold because it's a neoclassical roman structure with harshness and coldness. He said there's never total rejection nor total acceptance. It's in Tomar (Portugal), in the magnificent Convent of Christ. The Great Cloister was begun by Juan Castillo in the early 16th century. The Cloister of Joao III, as it's also known, was subsequently modified in the mid-16th century by Diogo de Torralva, explaining why one of the Manueline windows is almost hidden by it, which is a real shame since it's a pearl trapped between two walls.