Refoios Monatery

The building of Refoios’ Monastery, founded on the 12th century by Afonso Ansemondes, is presently home to Ponte de Lima’s agricultural college, having next to it the imposing Parish Church.

The cloister, with its central fountain dated and autographed by José Lopes, is Renaissance style, as well as some portals of the ancient monastic rooms. The parts painted with scrollwork and windings in some of the corridors are Baroque style. The kitchen tiles, with compositions of suspended sausages, game and fish, in Saint John style and the tiles of the old chapter room with the different habits of the several clergymen of the Rule of Saint Augustine, are, on the other hand, already in Neoclassical fashion, such as the plasterwork in the Music Room'. The church has a Portico in Renaissance style and the woodcarving of the altars follows Mannerism and Baroque style.

References:

• Visit Ponte de Lima

Address

Rua Dom Mendo Afonso 82, Ponte de Lima, Portugal

Details

Founded: 12th century
Category: Religious sites in Portugal