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Christianity sacred sites in Portugal
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Fatima
Fátima, Santarém, Portugal
On a hillside in central Portugal, three shepherd children encountered something that would draw millions....
Chapel of the Apparitions (Our Lady of Fátima)
Fátima, Santarém, Portugal
The Chapel of the Apparitions stands at the precise location where the Virgin Mary appeared to three Portuguese shepherd children in 1917....
Lamego
Lamego, Viseu, Portugal
Lamego Cathedral layers a Romanesque south tower, a Manueline triple-portico front, a 1524 Mannerist cloister, and an eighteenth-century Baroque interior painted by...
Caldas da Rainha
Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Portugal
Caldas da Rainha (European Portuguese: [ˈkaldɐʒ ðɐ ʁɐˈiɲɐ] ) is a medium-sized Portuguese city in the Oeste region, in the historical province of Estremadura, and in the...
Monastery of Santa Cruz
Coimbra, Coimbra, Coimbra / Centro, Portugal
Founded in 1131 as the motherhouse of the Augustinian Canons Regular in Portugal, Santa Cruz holds the tombs of Afonso Henriques, Portugal's first king, and his son Sancho...
Monastery of Santa Maria das Júnias
Montalegre, Pitões das Júnias, Vila Real / Norte, Portugal
Deep in Peneda-Gerês National Park, a short walk from a 30-meter waterfall, the ruined church and cloister of Santa Maria das Júnias sit in a mountain valley the...
Faro Cathedral
Faro, Faro, Faro / Algarve, Portugal
Faro Cathedral stands on ground used for worship across more than two millennia — a Roman temple, an early Christian basilica, a mosque during Moorish rule, and since the...
Lisbon Cathedral
Lisbon, Lisbon, Lisbon / Lisboa Region, Portugal
Since 1147, this fortress-faced cathedral above the Tagus has held the daily rhythm of Mass, sacrament, and civic devotion as the seat of the Patriarchate of Lisbon....
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Abadia
Amares, Santa Maria do Bouro, Amares, Braga / Norte, Portugal
Above the Cistercian abbey of Santa Maria do Bouro, near Amares in the Minho, an eight-chapel Via Sacra climbs to a Marian sanctuary local tradition holds as one of...
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Remedies
Lamego, Lamego, Viseu / Norte, Portugal
Above the Douro Valley town of Lamego, a Baroque staircase of 686 steps rises through nine terraced levels toward a Marian shrine devoted to healing....
Guarda Cathedral
Guarda, Guarda, Guarda / Centro, Portugal
Guarda Cathedral rose over roughly a century and a half, beginning in 1390, on the site of the diocesan seat transferred here in 1199 when King Sancho I founded Guarda as...
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Good Dispatch
Maia, Maia, Porto / Norte, Portugal
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Good Dispatch anchors the town of Maia around a devotion whose name once meant something startlingly practical: a favorable ruling on the...
Sanctuary of Christ the King
Almada, Almada, Setúbal / Lisboa Region, Portugal
Christ the King rises above the Tagus opposite Lisbon as Portugal's national monument of thanksgiving for surviving the Second World War untouched....
Sanctuary of Santo Cristo do Senhor da Serra
Miranda do Corvo, Semide, Miranda do Corvo, Coimbra / Centro, Portugal
On a hill above the village of Semide, near Coimbra, a sanctuary holds an image of Santo Cristo credited since the 17th century with miraculous favors....
Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Conception of Vila Viçosa
Vila Viçosa, Vila Viçosa, Évora / Alentejo, Portugal
Inside the castle walls of Vila Viçosa stands the parish church where, on March 25, 1646, King João IV placed his own royal crown on an image of Our Lady of the...
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Cape Espichel
Sesimbra, Cabo Espichel, Sesimbra, Setúbal / Lisboa Region, Portugal
On a wind-scoured Atlantic promontory south of Lisbon, an eighteenth-century Baroque church and its long pilgrim-hostel wings face an empty plaza above sheer cliffs....
Monastery of Serra do Pilar
Vila Nova de Gaia, Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto / Norte, Portugal
Above the Douro, where Vila Nova de Gaia faces Porto across the water, a circular Renaissance church rises from a 16th-century Augustinian foundation....
Church of Nossa Senhora da Agonia
Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo / Norte, Portugal
Built to house an image installed in 1674, the Church of Nossa Senhora da Agonia grew from a small chapel dedicated to fishermen's fear of shipwreck into the anchor of one...
Convent of Santo Agostinho
Leiria, Leiria, Leiria / Centro, Portugal
On the banks of the Lis River in Leiria, a late-sixteenth-century Augustinian convent gave the city one of its most enduring religious complexes....
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Piety, Loulé
Loulé, Loulé, Faro / Algarve, Portugal
Above Loulé, on a hill traced by an old Roman road, a small hermitage founded in 1553 holds a wooden Pietà venerated as miraculous....
Viseu Cathedral
Viseu, Viseu, Viseu / Centro, Portugal
Viseu Cathedral rises on the site of an Early Christian basilica destroyed under Moorish rule and rebuilt after the 1058 reconquest....
Monastery of São Martinho de Tibães
Braga, Mire de Tibães, Braga / Norte, Portugal
For more than two and a half centuries, Tibães governed a network of Benedictine houses across Portugal and Brazil as their mother house — until the 1834 dissolution of...
Jerónimos Monastery
Belém, Lisbon, Lisbon, Lisbon / Lisboa Region, Portugal
Jerónimos Monastery rises above the Tagus on the spot where sailors once prayed through the night before sailing into the unknown....
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Piety, Lousã
Lousã, Lousã, Coimbra / Centro, Portugal
Above the town of Lousã, a stairway of hermitage chapels climbs a rocky spur opposite the medieval castle, ending at a summit sanctuary holding a pietà image of Nossa...
Church of the Holy Miracle of Santarém
Santarém, Santarém, Santarém / Alentejo-Centro transition, Portugal
In the historic center of Santarém, a small Gothic-to-Renaissance church — now the Santuário do Santíssimo Milagre, formerly the parish church of Santo Estêvão — houses a...
Sanctuary of Santa Luzia
Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo / Norte, Portugal
Above Viana do Castelo, a Byzantine-domed basilica dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is known locally by another name entirely: Santa Luzia, patron of eyesight, whose...
Coimbra New Cathedral
Coimbra, Coimbra, Coimbra / Centro, Portugal
Built in the late 16th and 17th centuries as the church of a Jesuit college training missionaries for Portugal's colonial territories, this building became the seat of the...
Church of São Bento da Vitória
Porto, Porto, Porto / Norte, Portugal
Built from 1604 by the Portuguese Benedictine Congregation on the site of Porto's former Jewish quarter, São Bento da Vitória remains a consecrated church known for its...
Coimbra Old Cathedral
Coimbra, Coimbra, Coimbra / Centro, Portugal
The Sé Velha is the only Portuguese Romanesque cathedral from the Reconquista era to survive largely intact....
Évora Cathedral
Évora, Évora, Évora / Alentejo, Portugal
A granite fortress-church raised after the 1166 reconquest of Évora, the Sé has served as the seat of its archdiocese for more than eight centuries....
Porto Cathedral
Porto, Porto, Porto / Norte, Portugal
The Sé do Porto has held the seat of the Bishop of Porto for nine centuries, its thick Romanesque walls and twin towers built as much for defense as for devotion....
Church of Santa Maria Madalena da Falperra
Braga, Braga, Braga / Norte, Portugal
On a ridge above Braga, a granite Baroque facade rises where a medieval chapel once stood — rebuilt after the 1755 earthquake into one of André Soares's most celebrated...
Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte
Braga, Braga, Braga / Norte, Portugal
Above Braga, a zigzagging Baroque staircase rises through fountains and chapels toward a hilltop basilica — a Sacro Monte built after the Counter-Reformation to let...
Alcobaça Monastery
Alcobaça, Alcobaça, Leiria / Centro, Portugal
Founded in 1153 by King Afonso Henriques as the mother house of the Cistercian order in Portugal, Alcobaça is the largest church in the country and the burial site of King...
Our Lady of Nazaré
Nazaré, Leiria District, Portugal
Black Madonna shrine known for Saved knight from falling off cliff (legend), protection of fishermen and sailors, healing miracles
Convent of Christ
Tomar, Tomar, Santarém / Centro, Portugal
Founded in 1160 by the Knights Templar and later inherited whole by the Portuguese Order of Christ, this hilltop complex in Tomar grew across five centuries of Romanesque,...
Braga Cathedral
Braga, Braga, Braga / Norte, Portugal
Consecrated in 1089, Braga Cathedral is Portugal's oldest cathedral and the seat of the country's Archbishop-Primate....
Sanctuary of São Bento da Porta Aberta
Terras de Bouro, Rio Caldo, Terras de Bouro, Braga / Norte, Portugal
Above the Cávado river valley at the edge of Peneda-Gerês National Park, the Sanctuary of São Bento da Porta Aberta has kept its doors open, by tradition and by policy,...
Batalha Monastery
Batalha, Batalha, Leiria / Centro, Portugal
King João I vowed a monastery to the Virgin Mary before the 1385 Battle of Aljubarrota, and construction of Batalha continued, on and off, for more than a century...
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lapa
Sernancelhe, Sernancelhe, Viseu / Norte, Portugal
In the hill country of Beira Alta, a Baroque sanctuary is built directly around a natural granite grotto — the lapa — where tradition holds that a mute shepherdess...
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Nazaré
Nazaré, Nazaré, Leiria / Centro, Portugal
Above the fishing town of Nazaré, a whitewashed church holds a small wooden statue of the Virgin nursing the infant Christ, venerated for centuries as Our Lady of Nazaré....
Monastery of Santa Maria de Aguiar
Castelo Rodrigo, Castelo Rodrigo, Guarda / Centro, Portugal
On the Leonese-Portuguese border below the hilltop village of Castelo Rodrigo, Santa Maria de Aguiar was founded around 1170 as a Cistercian house shaping the agricultural...
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Peneda
Arcos de Valdevez, Arcos de Valdevez, Viana do Castelo / Norte, Portugal
High in the granite bowl of the Peneda-Gerês mountains, a Marian sanctuary rises around a story of vision and healing dated to 1220....
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