Visit the Convent of St. Anthony of Alva - Vila Cova de Alva

The Convent of St. Anthony of Alva, located in the Town of Vila Cova de Alva, is now private property.

This monastery has its highest elevation in the cloister of the eighteenth century, divided into two distinct parts: the Church, which has in its interior altarpieces national style, an organ with Rococo elements, among other points of interest, and the convent building, much changed, but where one can still observe the remains of the Chapter Room, the Dining Hall, the dormitory and the Cloister of five bays and small dimensions, whose ground floor is still intact. This consists of the Tuscan order columns that are based on a wall.

The first stone of the convent was launched on September 21, 1713. The arrival of the religious case, however, a year earlier, on March 19, 1712, in order to construct the building. This will have been completed on 24 February 1723, when it is translated from the Blessed Sacrament, accompanied by the religious, to the convent. The reason will be built this monastery in Vila Cova de Alva is still unexplained, although they suggest some conditions that have contributed to this building: the proximity of two other religious communities in Folques (with the Crosier Monastery) andLittle town of Beira (with the Franciscan Convent), the existence of a religious life more or less intense, the weather and water, among others.

Visit the Roman Bridge Vila Cova de Alva

Visit Pelourinho Vila Cova de Alva

Pelourinho de Vila Cova de Alva, is constructed in granite Manueline.

Pelourinho is the octagonal shaft, topped by needle square ornamented.

Visit the Church of Mercy - Vila Cova de Alva

The Church of Mercy, located in the Town of Vila Cova de Alva, have been built in the eighteenth century. Unfortunately her condition deteriorated led even the total destruction of the interior.

The façade baroque, eighteenth century, shows two areas, one rectangular, the portal that frames with pilasters flanked by fins.The pediment is interrupted by a door quadrilobado.

The gable, as the pediment is interrupted by a niche that still boasts a sculpture of the Virgin and Child, dating from the XV-XVI century.

Visit the Church of Vila Cova de Alva

The Church of Vila Cova de Alva have been built in the early eighteenth century, as evidenced by an inscription on its facade with the date 1712.

The portal of this church is going and is accompanied by rectangular pilasters with top finial-shaped niche. It has four windows with pedimented gable and the line has to be cut by the pedestal of the cross. It has a Chancel and two other chapels cut into the body. Their altars are from the first half of the eighteenth century, the national style. Its patron saint Our Lady of the Nativity.

The reconstruction, which occurred in 1952, led to changes in the church tower, stripping it of the balcony which stood at the top, in harmony with the architectural ensemble consisting of the churchyard, and building the spire which we see today.

Visit the Soul of Vila Cova de Alva

Visit Dam Pillowcases - Pombeiro da Beira

Dam of Pillowcases, located on the border between the Town of Pombeiro da Beira and Vila Cova de Alva has a reservoir that presents many opportunities for nature lovers.
In its waters of the River Alva abound barbel, black bass and the bogus.