Aqueduto de Santa Clara (Vila do Conde)
The Aqueduto de Santa Clara is an aqueduct in Portugal. It brings water from a source in Terroso (Póvoa de Varzim) over four kilometers to the Carmelite Convent of Santa Clara in Vila do Conde .
Construction began under the abbess Donna Maria de Menezes , who purchased the land around the source to build the aqueduct. When Abbess D. Catarina Lima noticed the incorrect calculation of the slope, work was stopped again in 1636. Construction was not resumed until 1705 under the Abbess D. Bárbara Micaela de Ataíde and was finally completed in 1714.
The aqueduct originally consisted of 999 arches that are no longer fully preserved today.
By decree of June 16, 1910, the building was classified as a Monumento Nacional .
literature
- Jose Augusto Vieira: O Minho Pitoresco. Lisbon 1887.
- Augusto Ferreira: Vila do Conde eo seu Alfoz - Origens e Monumentos. Postage 1923.
- Eugénio de Andrea da Cunha e Freitas: O aqueduto de Santa Clara de Vila do Conde. Boletim de Vila do Conde, 2, Vila do Conde 1961.
- Marta Miranda: Vila do Conde. Lisbon 1998.
Web links
- Aqueduto de Vila do Conde. In: Pesquisa Geral - Pesquisa do Patrimonio. Direção Geral do Património Cultural , accessed March 28, 2018 (Portuguese).
- Isabel Sereno: Aqueduto de Vila do Conde / Aqueduto de Santa Clara Instituto da Habitação e Reabilitação Urbana, 1994, updated 1997 (Portuguese)
Coordinates: 41 ° 21 '12.1 " N , 8 ° 44' 20.9" W.