Quite old building that, according to some opinions, you can remount the time of national training. The original House, formed by the main body, rests on stone arches. This solar suffered many modifications over the centuries, has given the current aspect.

A horse riding centre with horse-riding classes that is also the stage for jump competitions and therapeutic sessions for handicapped children. It has a riding-school, an obstacle field, boxes, paddocks and green spaces for horseback rides.

Typical gazebo where, on feast days, Act the local philharmonic bands.

Cruise very simple and rustic. Boasts a Latin cross without decoration.

Built by Cistercian monks between 1178 and 1254, the Monastery consists of three sections: the Church and the North and South Wings, which respectively housed the apartments of the kings and visiting court, and the residences of the Abbot and the monks. The original façade retains the battlements on the side roof, the Gothic portal, and the large side windows. The Church is the largest in Portugal and contains the tombs of King Pedro I and Inês de Castro. Also, noteworthy are the Ambulatory and the Chapel of St. Bernard, the Chapel of Relics, and the Chapel of the Lord …

It began with a dual community – male and female – having become a female monastery and adopted the Rule of Saint Benedict at the end of the 11th century. The affiliation with the Cistercian Order, which occurred in the 13th century, is associated with the figure of Infanta D. Mafalda, daughter of D. Sancho I, who, in 1220, decided to incorporate the nuns into the new Order. Endowed with a vast patrimony, it became one of the most important Portuguese female monasteries. Retreating to the convent, D. Mafalda gained a reputation for holiness, to which the discovery of the …

The Celas Monastery is a construction of sober character, showing the influence of several architectonical styles. At the church are worthy of notice the manueline arched roof, a 17th century glazed tiles panelling and several portals and arches with renaissant and manueline characteristics. The cloisters’ galleries present pictures representing memorable events at the chapiters.

The primitive moth conventual building nothing remains due to various transformations that was targeted. The set of buildings is composed by the Church and the cloister, the result of a 17th-century reform. The cloister features Doric columns based directly on the floor, forming seven spans in each ward.

Despite its integration into the Cistercian Order, the life of this monastery was turbulent and short. During his visit in 1553, the Abbot of Clairvaux found it in a state of complete neglect and poverty, which is why it was secularized in 1560, becoming a parish church. What we see today in Ermelo is a beautiful Romanesque church adapted to the life of a small parish, first in the 16th century and again in the 18th century. Of the nave that stood to the south, only the beautiful triumphal arch remains, now open to the sky outside. The monastery's dependencies …