Capela São João (fragoso)

Pure nature.

Sem toilet

The Chapel of St. John is situated on the slope of Monte de S. Gonçalo, near the bank of Ribeiro de S. Vicente, in the southern part of the parish of Fragoso. The hermitage is in a terraced carved in the schist terrain, overlooking the old path that, coming from Tamel Santa Leocádia, goes down the hill to the center of the parish and from there to the medieval bridge over the Neiva River. The building is well sized and proportioned, with typical eighteenth century features. On the lintel above the door is the date 1735. The building has good granite stonework framing the angles, the portal and the two small slits that flank it, like a portal topped by a triangular pediment. In the side walls were opened two large windows in masseira, well to the taste of the time. This is a place of traditions: there would be the site of the establishment of the early church of St. Vincent to whom D. Afonso Henriques made a letter of couto in 1127. About 50 meters, in the middle of the Ribeiro, is the Fountain of Santa Isabel where, according to legend, the Holy Queen would have stopped and drunk while making the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, leaving the water with miraculous properties.