Lamego

Santuário de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, in Lamego

By tourist on April 20, 2015 Lamego, Religious tourism

The Shrine of Our Lady of Remedies, is located in the parish of the Cathedral, city and county of Lamego, Viseu District, Portugal. The popular devotion at the site dates back to a chapel, under the invocation of St. Stephen, built in 1361. In the sixteenth century, threatening ruin, was demolished (1568), starting the construction […]

Cathedral of Lamego

By tourist on April 20, 2015 Lamego, Religious tourism

The Lamego Cathedral, was founded in 1129. It is a Gothic cathedral, keeps the original square tower, but the rest of the architecture reflects changes made in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, including a Renaissance cloister with a dozen well-proportioned arches. In the twelfth century, after the restoration of the Diocese of Lamego, the construction […]