Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Carvoeiro

Very beautiful place with a beautiful history.

really good

Well preserved on the outside, I was unable to visit the interior due to pandemis.

Santa Maria do Carvoeiro Monastery: In Carvoeiro there was a Benedictine Convent, already documented in 1129, of which we have the Church and the residential part, built in the middle of the 18th century. It should be noted that the first explicit mention of the São Bento rule, in Portucalense territory dates back to 959, but this probably only starts to be observed from 1085-1095, with the arrival of the monks of Cluny. This Benedictine temple was reformed in 1704 and in its spacious interior we can appreciate a grand altarpiece of the Altar-Mor in national style and from that time. Located on a hilltop, between mountains, where the pastoralism once had large areas, everything indicates that cattle raising was the main source of income. The current Lugar Serrano da vacaria seems to have been a simple bland of the Monastery. D. Luísa Monteiro, notable from Carvoeiro, gave this monastery to the parish. In Braga there are elements from the primitive Romanesque temple of this Monastery. In the book collective inventory of parish archives, vol. II. North National Archives / Torre do Tombo, the following information can be found in full: The first known reference to Carvoeiro is found in document 547 of Liber Fidei, from 1120, in which it is called "Carbonário". There is abundant documentation from the 12th and 13th centuries that refers to the Benedictine tale and Monastery of Santa Maria de Carvoeiro, founded in this parish around 885. According to Father António Carvalho da Costa, this old Convent will have taken the name of a great city that existed on the top from a hill near Carvoeiro, of which there are traces. Its name Carbono, derives from the coal that was made there. In the catalog of the Churches of Aguiar do Neiva from 1320, the Monastery was taxed at 60 pounds. In 1371, however, it was valued at 15 pounds and, in 1528, at the Monastery of Carvoeiro S. Maria it yielded 200 reais. According to Américo Costa Santa Maria, Maior de Carvoeiro was the curator of the presentation of that Benedictine Monastery, having later passed the priory. Bishop D. Pedro and the organization of the Dioscese of Braga assigned him as patron saint Nossa Senhora do O. In the administrative forum he belonged in 1839 to the municipality of Barcelos, in 1852 to that of Viana, and in 1878, to the court of Vila de Punhe.

A place with history, whoever is close by is a place to know. It also has panoramic views over the hill and benches to recharge your batteries or simply enjoy.