By tourist on April 20, 2015
Religious tourism, Tarouca

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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By tourist on April 20, 2015
Cultural tourism, Go, Religious tourism, See, Tarouca

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 […]
By tourist on April 20, 2015
Armamar, Religious tourism

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 […]