São Pedro das Águias Monastery
| Cistercian monastery of São Pedro de Águias | |
|---|---|
| location |
 Portugal Viseu district |
| Coordinates: | 41 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ N , 7 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
408 |
| founding year | 987 by Benedictines |
| Cistercian since | after 1145 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1834 |
| Mother monastery | Tarouca Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
The São Pedro de Águias Monastery (Sanctus Petrus de Aquilis) is a former Cistercian monastery in the parish (freguesia) Paradela in the Concelho Tabuaço in the Viseu district in Portugal . It is located on the slope to the west above the Távora stream and in the southeast of the village of Távora, around 2 km north of the Romanesque church of the same name, which was the former hermitage.
history
The hermitage is said to have been founded in 985. It is believed to have gone to the Benedictine order in 1080 , who in the 11th century settled the nearby monastery with monks from Guimarães . The monastery probably joined the Cistercian order in 1145 or later as a subsidiary of the Tarouca monastery . So it belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . In the 16th century it fell into Kommende and in 1834 the other Portuguese monasteries were dissolved. As a result, the monastery caught fire. Today the facility is privately owned.
Plant and buildings
The small Romanesque church of the hermitage is described as a “prime example of the so-called Benedictine Romanesque in Portugal” (Romanesque Portugal). The monastery complex still has Romanesque traces and, moreover, belongs to Mannerism and Baroque. The Romanesque church with a square tower on the north side has a single nave. The two-storey cloister to the north has a round-arched, flat-roofed Mannerist cloister with a central fountain. The chapter house, the refectory and a dormitory are said to have been preserved from the medieval complex. The facility is surrounded by a wall.
literature
- Boletim da Direcção Geral dos Edifícios e Monumentos Nacionais, nº 75: Igreja Românica de S. Pedro das Águias, 1954;
- Cocheril, Maur: Routier des Abbayes Cisterciennes du Portugal, Paris, 1978;
- Graf / Mattoso / Real: Romanisches Portugal, Echter Verlag Würzburg 1991, pp. 179-184, ISBN 3-429-01270-8 .