Monastery of Vilar de Frades
The Monastery of S.Salvador de Vilar de Friars was founded in 566 by S.Martinho de Dume. From this Benedictine monastery there are only some elements of your Romanesque portal. The oldest reference to the Benedictine Monastery of Vilar de Frades Date of 1509. However, according to Frei Leo de São Tomas, there would have been a letter from the Monk Benedictine Frei Drumario, written on October 7, 571 dating the Foundation of the Monastery in 566, By the hand of Saint Martin of Dume. According to Jorge de São Paulo, believing in the existence of this letter, the monastery followed the rule of São Bento since that date until 714, year in which it was destroyed due to the Muslim invasions, nothing remaining of this phase of the convent's life. In 1425 the congregation of the secular brothers of S.Salvador de Vilar de Friars is founded. In 1461 the religious order changes from the name to the congregation of secular monks of S.João Evangelista, known as the order of the loos, through Queen D.Isabel, wife of D.Afonso V.
The church of the former Monastery of Vilar de Frades, implemented in the area of Primitive Romanesque and Benedictine Construction (269), came from the will of the evangelist priests of the five hundred and the Mecenato de D. Diogo de Sousa, Ar...
The choir was constructed between 1634-24 and the wooden floorboard and coatings in 1682, by the hand of the disclosure António João Padilha, from the port. The high choir name advises the fact that it is closer to the sky, the Divine. The prayers...
The high choir was constructed between 1634-24 and the wooden floorboard and coatings in 1682, by the hand of the disclosure António João Padilha, from the port. The high choir name advises the fact that it is closer to the sky, the Divine. The pr...
The church of the former Monastery of Vilar de Friars, implemented in the area of Primitive Romanesque and Benedictine Construction (269), came from the will of the evangelist priests of the five hundred and the Mecenato de D. Diogo de Sousa, Ar...
From the original Manueline cloister remains the ruins of the south wall and would be quite well ornamented with marble and a fountain in the center. This cloister is neo-classic from the end of the eighteenth century, beginning of the nineteenth ...
Baptistery with baptismal sink of Manueline tracing, it was possibly placed here in the seventeenth century, during the works of remodeling of the central body.
The sacristy is from the end of the eighteenth century, neo-classic style. The former would be manueline and smaller. The windows line up with the frames of the four evangelists on the opposite wall. The central table to prepare the goblets.
Romanesque portal - from the original romanesque monastery, there are still this portal and a window that is above this portal. It was transferred in the eighteenth century, during a remodeling of the main facade. This portal consists of 3 archivo...
Although the main facade has been rebuilt during the eighteenth century, the Axial Portal maintained its manueline aesthetics (portuguese late gothic). At that time the original Romanesque portal was rebuilt in the south tower. Oak door with brass...
Although the main facade has been rebuilt during the eighteenth century, the axial portal maintained its manueline aesthetics (portuguese late gothic). Oak door with brass plated cushions pretending lion faces, built between 1694-95 by Carpenter S...
1589-1658 Works in the side chapels, including the placement of its altables. It is completed for the works of the Church in 1658. 1589-1658 Works in the side chapels, including the placement of its altables. It is completed for the works of the C...
