Description: It is a simple church with a single nave. Side door reads: M.DCC.XXIII.AN (1723). It is believed that the Church was built using stones from the primitive wall and “Torre de Menagem”.
Legends and traditions: the town of Vinhais has much veneration for its great patron. According to tradition, his image belonged to the Church of S. Facundo, ancient temple which according to legend was composed by the Goths where two Galician gentlemen, Facundo and Primitivo, in the battle against the barbarians, suffer the cruel martyrdom in defence of the Christian faith. In times of drought is carried in procession the image of the parish church of San Facundo, saying even today some neighbours when days of clear skies return, a strong downpour of water makes chaos the procession.
Opening hours: Visits by appointment only
Address: Located at the highest point of the town of Vinhais
Date: the early church was medieval. In the side portal is inscribed the date corresponding to 1677.
Description: Rectangular Church, whose facade opens a portal that is protected by a porch. As a result of the cover appears quadrangular Bell Tower, with two openings. The church clock dated 1914 has a curious mechanism powered by two blocks of granite. At the head of the relief image of the Patron Saint, Nossa Senhora da Assunção, enthroned in a gilded altarpiece, which will be before the year 1722. In front of the door there is a side chapel of the worship of Christ.
State of conservation: good.
Legends and traditions: the image of the chapel of Santo Cristo, located near the side of the portal, was considered miraculous in the 18th century.
Source: Património dos Concelhos da Terra Fria Concelho de Bragança VOLUME I
Date: 13th/ 16th / 18th centuries.
Valuation: National Monument (Desde 16.06.1910).
Description: The Benedictine monastery of Castro de Avelãs enjoyed the protection of Afonso Henriques, exerting a decisive influence on the economy of this region in which it is implanted, at least until the 13th century. It was a very important monastic Centre in the northeast between the 12th and 16th centuries. The Church is situated between the ruins of the convent and the remains of a tower and friary. The old church was built and incomplete Romanesque mudejar Root Lion, with red brick, a material seldom used among us. This project was never completed, with three semicircular chapels, one of the towers of the facade and the beginning of the wall of the Hall, visible on the South side. In southern apsidal is a monolithic, composed of wild arc granite. The tomb is decorated with two coats of arms and a registration without end – “ERA DE MIL E CCC “- engraved on the cover.
State of conservation: good.
Location: Village of Castro de Avelãs
Legends and traditions: an old tradition says that the Tomb, stored inside one of the apses, belongs to D. Knight Pelayo, known as Earl of Ariães. According to the legend, this Earl led a victorious war against the incursions of the Muslims in D. Ramiro II, who loved the inhabitants of Bragança. The king proposed him to deliver the city if he was agreed to enter in a challenge with a Moor, but in unequal strength. Confident in his victory, the Earl accepted the challenge on the day of St. George, who pledged, in case of victory, to erect a chapel in his invocation that annually visit in procession. He defeated the enemy, at the edge of Ariães, and had built a temple in honour of St. George.
Source: Património dos Concelhos da Terra Fria Concelho de Bragança VOLUME I
Date: Contemporary age.
Description: This religious building has been remodelled in recent years. It has a façade divided into three bodies, six barred windows and an arch of round door on the central space. The photo of the facade is made by the interruption of the belfry.
State of conservation: good.
Source: Património dos Concelhos da Terra Fria Concelho de Bragança VOLUME I
Date: 18th-21st century. The construction of the new Cathedral did not begin until 1988. On October 7th, 2001, the Church was dedicated to our Lady Queen.
Description: Is the largest and most important of all the religious buildings of the city. Designed to be Bishop of the Church, which takes the helm, celebrate the Eucharist and chairs for major Diocesan events.
Building boasts modern architectural reference is to ancient churches of Santa Maria and the Cathedral towers project has been designed by the architect Vassalo Rosa, who in 1964 won the contest sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Only on December 30, 1988 did the work start and on the 7th of October, 2001 was devoted to our Lady Queen. The need to build a cathedral dating from 27th September, 1780, when Pope Pius VI asks the reunification of the two dioceses of Bragança and Miranda, a single, instituted in Bragança. It was consecrated by Bishop Antonio Rafael.
State of conservation: very good.
Source: Património dos Concelhos da Terra Fria Concelho de Bragança VOLUME I
Date: 16th century (1536)
Description: The Church of the 15th century was rebuilt in the 19th century, due to the damage caused by the bad weather. On August 5th, 1794, D. Luis Antonio da Veiga Cabral gave this space for collection of our Lady Nossa Senhora do Loreto, a female congregation called Mary, who went to the Church. It is a church of a ship, which maintains the pulpit with balusters of granite and wood and altars carved in the body of the Church and the choir.
State of conservation: very good.
Source: Património dos Concelhos da Terra Fria Concelho de Bragança VOLUME I
Date: 16th – 18th centuries
Description: on the façade the North elevation is a portal of Renaissance period with some elements of the already Baroque aesthetics. The entablature is based on two pillars of composite capitals and pediment shows the ends two towers in the centre of this is a niche containing a statue of the Madonna and child flanked by two pilasters. Inside, the space is a rectangular nave adorned with Baroque altarpieces. By the side of the epistle are two Baroque altarpieces. This side is the pulpit from the 17th century. The choir is also Baroque balustrade. Ceiling of the presbytery takes into account the mixture of Gothic and Renaissance influences.
State of conservation: very good.
Legends and traditions: in the parish of the Cathedral is the main religious festivities of our Lady Nossa Senhora das Graças, between 12th and 22nd of August, the Santo Condestavel in June and July of the martyrs.
Source: Património dos Concelhos da Terra Fria Concelho de Bragança VOLUME I
Date: 16th century – the convent began in 1569
Description: this is a sturdy, single-nave Church. The South portal is a work of classical Renaissance lines with some Baroque notes, adorned with two medallions. Above is inscribed the date 1597 and is based on the coat of arms of the city, the Manueline period. The nave has a wooden deck with landscape painting of the 18th century and has imprinted the date of 1930 which corresponds very possibly to the date of restoration. The main Chapel has an 18th century altarpiece panels, with the image of our Lady Nossa Senhora das Graças (1862).
State of conservation: good
Legends and traditions: the patron saint of the city of Bragança, to our Lady Nossa Senhora das Graças is holiday on August 22nd an altar of this church. Festivities dedicated to this Saint start the 10th and only finish 22nd of the same month.
Source: Património dos Concelhos da Terra Fria Concelho de Bragança VOLUME I
Date: The Misericordia Church was changed constantly, since 1539 and has undergone several reconstructions from 17th to the 19th centuries.
Description: Church nave with barrel vault. Of its heritage, it should be noted the mercy images and, in particular, the image of natural size of Christ from the 16th century, exposed in the altarpiece carved by the sculptor Manuel Madureira (1682), where also is the 16th-century Holy House of mercy banner. On the side of the Gospel, is the altar of São João Evangelista, from the 18th century, which took the place of an older (17th century).
State of conservation: good
Source: Património dos Concelhos da Terra Fria Concelho de Bragança VOLUME I
Date: 16th century (1569).
Description: small and simple Chapel of São Sebastião has a neoclassical carving with an image of the Patron Saint. They have been established in a time of plague and the result of a vow made by the King Manuel in 1505, when the plague ravaged the Kingdom. This monarch pledged to raise a chapel dedicated to São Sebastião on the outskirts of each city.
State of conservation: good.
Source: Património dos Concelhos da Terra Fria Concelho de Bragança VOLUME I