Santuário de Nossa Senhora da Graça
This temple is situated on top of Mount flour, overlooking the Mondim de Basto, about 990 meters above sea level. Inserted in a landscape of great beauty, surrounded by the mountains of the Serra do Alvão, is a place of reference in terms of history, archaeology, religion and even sport. The devotion to our Lady of grace shrine attracts thousands of pilgrims every year, mainly in its three official parties: the rise, on the last Sunday in may, the secular pilgrimage of Santiago, gets lost in the memory of the times, 25 July (already referenced circa 1500) and the great annual pilgrimage from the 1st Sunday in Septemberchaired by the Bishop of Vila Real. As for architecture, the Baroque Sanctuary quadrangular Bell Tower and nave presents centered, octagonal and chancel and sacristy rectangular. Inside has coverage in domes and barrel-vaults, in granite, with chorus-high monumental about bow down, two side pulpits based petraea and wooden guard, access from inside the walls, two side altarpieces and the chancel in polychrome carving, Rococo.
- Easy external parking
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- Visitable (no guide)
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Capela de Nossa Senhora da Luz
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Cruzeiro de Vilar de Ferreiros
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