Houses, places and the Portuguese property market, written by us

Above the Tâmega, a monastery founded around the year 1000 by a warrior and a bishop holds the tombs and legends of the family that raised Portugal's first king.

In 1834 the canons left Vila Boa do Bispo and the monastery became a quinta. Below it, an old granite quarry on the Tâmega has become a lake.

For eight centuries, Augustinian canons lived around a granite cloister above the Tâmega. In the seventeenth century they turned their Romanesque house into a Baroque one.