Fiães Monastery
| Fiães Cistercian Abbey | |
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 View from the west |
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| location |
 Portugal
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| Coordinates: | 42 ° 6 '14.6 " N , 8 ° 12' 40.6" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
332 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | Late 12th century |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1834 |
| Mother monastery | Tarouca Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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The Mosteiro de Fiães , also Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Fiães de Fenalibus , in German Monastery of St. Mary of Fiães , is a former Cistercian abbey in the municipality ( Freguesia ) Fiães in the Concelho Melgaço in Portugal . The monastery is located on the border with Spain ( Galicia ), around 7 km southeast of Melgaço, at a considerable height above the Minho River .
history
The monastery, originally a Benedictine monastery , was taken over by the Cistercians at the end of the 12th century; there is evidence of a visit to the Armenteira monastery in 1203 (1151 is also given as the year of foundation). As a subsidiary of the Tarouca Monastery, it belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . Renovations took place in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1834 the monastery was closed.
Buildings and plant
The transeptless , three-aisled, originally Romanesque church has four bays and three square chapels. The west portal and some of the outer walls are still Romanesque. The tower in the northwest is likely to be much younger. In the south aisle there is a tomb for Fernâo Eanes de Lima, the father of the first Visconde de Vila Nova de Cerveira .
