Lisbon - Conservatório Nacional de Músicae Teatro

By following the Travessa dos Inglesinhos uphill to the left, we reach the former S. Caetano de Thiene monastery.

Since 1837 the city conservatoire has been housed here. Initially only for drama, it was later combined with the music conservatoire, which was founded in 1833 and whose first head, Joao Domingos Bontempo, was one of the most famous Portuguese composers. The establishment of the conservatoire contributed substantially to an independent development of music in Portugal, where otherwise music had been adopted almost exclusively from Italy.