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0.8 mi from the city centre · Felgueiras · Portugal
Felgueiras on the Romanesque Route
Felgueiras is known for its Romanesque heritage, led by the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pombeiro, on the Romanesque Route. Read on for village churches, a Roman villa site, a name taken from reddish ferns and the birthplace of a navigator of the Age of Discovery.
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Felgueiras, in the district of Porto and the Tâmega e Sousa sub-region, has some of its oldest traces of human presence in the Neolithic-Chalcolithic rock carvings of the Penedo de São Gonçalo in Varziela. The Bronze Age settlement of Cimalha, partly excavated between 2003 and 2005, yielded more than a hundred pottery vessels, some completely intact, and the council counts fourteen Iron Age hilltop settlements across the municipality, among them the Castro do Senhor dos Perdidos, the Castro de Sendim and the Castro de Santa Marinha. In Sendim, the foundations of a Roman villa have been found at the foot of Monte do Crasto.
The name comes from "felgaria", land covered in ferns, which turn reddish ("rubeans") when dry; "Felgaria Rubeans" first appears in the will of Mumadona Dias, Countess of Guimarães, in the 10th century. In the Middle Ages the powerful Sousa family was linked to the founding of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pombeiro, a major Romanesque building and a National Monument since 1910. Other Romanesque churches include Santa Maria de Airães, São Vicente de Sousa, Unhão and Vila Verde, and the municipality is part of the Rota do Românico. Manuel I granted a charter on 15 October 1514, and Felgueiras became a city on 13 July 1990. The navigator Nicolau Coelho, who sailed in the Age of Discovery, was born here around 1460.
In Friande, near the source of the River Sousa, the Museu Casa do Assento is an ethnographic museum organised around the cycles of rural life, linen, bread, wine and olive oil, with a small collection of costumes and religious objects.
Craft beer in Felgueiras is still a rare find, which makes tracking down a local pour part of the adventure. After a day among Romanesque churches and hillforts, it is worth seeking out.
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Felgueiras is in the district of Porto, in the Tâmega e Sousa sub-region. Manuel I granted it a charter on 15 October 1514, and it became a city on 13 July 1990. The navigator Nicolau Coelho, who sailed in the Age of Discovery, was born here around 1460.
The name comes from 'felgaria', land covered in ferns, which turn reddish ('rubeans') when dry. The form 'Felgaria Rubeans' first appears in the will of Mumadona Dias, Countess of Guimarães, in the 10th century, making it one of the oldest written references to the area.
The municipality is part of the Romanesque Route. Its best-known building is the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pombeiro, a major Romanesque building dating from the Middle Ages. Other Romanesque churches include Santa Maria de Airães, São Vicente de Sousa, Unhão and Vila Verde.
Yes. In Sendim, the foundations of a Roman villa have been found. They show that people lived here long before the name 'Felgaria Rubeans' was first written down in the 10th century, and long before the Romanesque monastery and churches of the Middle Ages were built.