VedutaChurch
Santa Clara-a-Velha
The ruins of a Gothic convent, long submerged by the Mondego and now excavated.
- Editor's score
- 4.4
- Visit
- 1 h
- Price
- €
About
Founded in the fourteenth century by Queen Isabel, later revered as a saint, the convent suffered from repeated flooding until the nuns abandoned it in the seventeenth century. Excavations have revealed the church and cloister, and a museum displays objects recovered from the mud.
Best time to go: Start with the visitor centre, which explains the monastery's long struggle with the river.
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