It is one of the biggest and most beautiful Monuments from the Gothic architecture in Portugal and the first from Manueline art in the 16th century. Batalha Monastery is also the most outstanding symbol from the Avis dynasty. The monastery was built by orders of D. João I as a consequence from a promise he made to the Virgin Mary in order to win the battle of Aljubarrota in 1385. The construction started the next year under the supervision of the Portuguese architect Afonso Domingues. In this initial phase the results produced were the majority of the church structures and …

16th century convent which preserves the two-storey cloister rectangular plant. The Church, designed by Afonso Álvares, is a single nave covered with tiles. Are to point out a burial headstone and a 16th century sculpture representing St. Bacchus.

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.

The primitive monastery, called Monastery of São Salvador de Grijó, was founded in 922 in the place of Muraceses. It was only in the year 1112 that it was moved to its current location. In 1770 the convent was extinguished, passing its assets to the Convent of Mafra. Of note are the gilded carvings and the 18th century tiles in the chancel, as well as the pipe organ, from the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century. Also noteworthy is the tomb of D. Rodrigo Sanches, classified as a National Monument.

This Convent was donated to the Canons regular of Augustinian Rule was sacred on the 16th century after some renovations. In 1562 it started to belong to the friars from Santa Cruz de Coimbra convent and was extinguished in 1770. This construction is under the renaissance style and it has some important features from it, such as the church, the Monastery house and all the land inside of the fence.

A stone monastery with two towers and a garden surrounding it. The granite façade, the gothic coat of arms, the Romanesque baptistery and the medieval tower stand out. The collection of 20 images, namely those of Saint Peter and Saint Michael, deserve a close look.

Founded in 1059 according to popular tradition, although the oldest documentary reference dates back to 1099, the Monastery of Pombeiro enjoyed privileges and justice of its own as early as 1112, as evidenced by the Charter of Couto granted on that date by D. Teresa. This monastic institution has been documented since 853, which makes it one of the oldest in the territory, although there is no material evidence of its first establishment. Located at the intersection of two of the main roads of medieval times, one that connected Porto to Trás-os-Montes and a second that connected Beira to Alto …