Monuments

From the original convent located in this isolated but splendid setting, there still remains the church, which has a number of interesting architectural features. In the façade, the door with its four archivolts is still the original one, whilst the upper part, rebuilt in the 17th century, displays statues of St. Bernard, the founder of the Cistercian Order, Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Benedict, surmounted by the Order's coat of arms. The tripartite apse has quadrangular chapels, a typical feature of Cistercian architecture. The three-naved interior has no transept and was greatly altered in modern times.

Nothing now remains of the convent buildings that previously spread southwards and where Philippa of Lancaster once stayed when she came from England to marry D. João I.