Visit the Hermitage of Santo André - Santiago Maior (Beja)

The Santo André Hermitage, located in the parish of Santiago Maior (Beja), is part of the Gothic-Mudejar constructive tradition. The temple was built in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. It is a type of construction that finds some parallels in the Alentejo region. This Hermitage is classified as National Monument.

Visit the Chapel of St. Peter - Candles

Visit Fort Whaling - Sagres

The Fortress of Whaling, located in the Town of Sagres, was built around 1573, a site of a previous similar building. The fortress, of triangular plan, was designed to protect local fishermen and housed in a local chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Guia. Currently only a few are visible foundation walls due to the advanced state of disrepair and neglect.

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe - Raposeira

The Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe is located in the Town of Raposeira.

This small chapel dates from the thirteenth century and has many elements in a Gothic Romanesque base yet.

The main façade has a Gothic style, very simple and rural, with ogival portal and a rosette to surmount.

The interior is a single nave, the chancel being covered by a dome with beautiful decorated capitals.

During the fifteenth century the Chapel was built in Quinta da Raposeira, owned by Prince Henry, still leaving traces of the medieval palace where he resided the Prince that made possible the success of the Portuguese Discoveries.

In dry years it was tradition to come in pilgrimage to the Hermitage, to ask the blessing of the water at Santa Guadalupe.