Marian devotion
Our Lady of the Castle
The shrine of the mountain · Mangualde (Viseu)
On the village of Mangualde, in the Beira, the sanctuary of Nossa Senhora do Castelo crown a mountain that is raised by a granite step of chapels and tiles with the life of the Virgin.
Origin and history
The sanctuary crown a mountain that dominates the village of Mangalde. The sources point out that their origin is very old - before Portuguese nationality itself, according to tradition - but the successive remodeling and reconstructions have erased the primitive vestiges, so that their current configuration corresponds to the XVIII- 19th centuries.
The ensemble is articulated as a pilgrimage sanctuary: a granite (step) with four chapels and rock tiles that narrate episodes of the life of the Virgin, culminating in the upper hermitage. It's a public interest monument. His great rosemary is celebrated on 8 September, the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin, with ascending to the mountain, prayer and coexistence; the place is also a famous lookout over the region.
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