Religious tourism
The Monastery of Santa Maria de Salzedas is located in Salzedas parish, Tarouca municipality, Portugal. Belonging to the Cistercian Order, date from the twelfth century, and its space was donated by the wife of D. Egas Moniz. Suffered expansion works in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particularly in terms of the facade and the […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Convent of St. John Tarouca is located on the slope of Leomil mountains, overlooking the valley of the river Varosa, in the parish of St. John Tarouca, Tarouca municipality in the district of Viseu, Portugal. Constitutes the first monastery of the Cistercian Order in the country, founded in 1144. In 1152, after the victory […]
The Mother Church of Armamar (or Church of St. Michael), whose construction possibly dates back to the twelfth century, is the only national monument Armamar1 municipality, Portugal. Has undergone several subsequent interventions to build in the XVII and XVIII. According to tradition the church was probably built with stones of the demolished Armamar Castle, before […]
