Fiães Monastery - Melgaço, Portugal - Abbeys, Convents and Monasteries on Waymarking.com

[PT]
A igreja pertencia a um mosteiro da Ordem de Cister e foi construída na primeira metade do século XIII e reformada nos séculos XVII e XVIII na fachada e no interior das naves.

A cabeceira, o portal e as paredes exteriores das naves datam da construção medieval.

Na nave sul encontra-se o túmulo, do século XV, de Fernão Eanes de Lima, pai de Leonel de Lima, primeiro visconde de Vila Nova de Cerveira.

Do mosteiro, so resta a igreja e mais alguns vestigios como uma fonte contruida em 1737

Está classificada como Monumento Nacional desde 1977.

[ENG]
This church was a Cistercian monastery built in the first half of the 13th century, was reformed in the 17th and 18th centuries, which saw extensive alterations to the façade and the interior of the naves.

Of the monastery, only remains the church and a few more traces like a fountain built in on 1737.

It is classified by IPPAR as National Monument since 1977.

From: Wikipedia

Full name of the abbey/monastery/convent: Mosteiro de Fiães Address: Fiães Melgaço, Viana do Castelo Portugal Religious affiliation: Catolica Date founded/constructed: século XIII Status of Use: Converted to Other Use Web Site: Not listed

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