Monastery of Salzedas
Tarouca
Hours · From Tuesday to Sunday. Tuesday, from 14:00 to 18:00; Wednesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 14:00 to 18:00.
Closed to the public on Monday, national holidays 1 January, Sunday Easter, May 1st and December 25th and Tarouca municipal holiday (September 29th)
Price
Normal Ticket – €3.00
Guided Tour Tickets: Guided tours have a 50% surcharge on the ticket. Temporary exhibitions or other events subject to specific price lists defined on a case-by-case basis and disclosed when they are held.
Contact · 254 600 230
valedovarosa@culturanorte.gov.pt
www.valedovarosa.gov.pt
A male monastery of the Cistercian Order, its construction began in 1168. In 1997 it was classified as a National Monument. Since 2011 it has been open to the public, and today it is possible to visit the museum nucleus and the exhibition "Fragments. Expressions of the Religious Art of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Salzedas". This monastery is one of the most visited in the Douro and Varosa Region.
Interactive visit
Using a smartphone, this digital guide takes the visitor through the most iconic points of the monument, where it is possible to learn about the history and artistic heritage in a playful, autonomous and accessible way. An ideal visit to make with family or in a school context.
Guided tour
Journalist and history writer Pedro Olavo Simões talks with local personalities, in a video tour that gives new and different perspectives on each heritage asset.
Heritage on Taste
Chef Renato Cunha, coordinator of the gastronomic experiences, invites you to get to know the local gastronomic heritage, sharing products and delicacies that are part of the collective imagination of each region, made with ancestral techniques such as cast iron pots.
Concert
Concert performed in the heart of the monument by artists who have in common the appreciation of heritage, music made with stringed instruments and the Portuguese language.
Pedro de Castro was born in São Paulo on the 29th August 1977. He has always been very close to the fado community: his parents' friends were fado singers, musicians and players. This led him, from a very young age, to the Fado houses in Cascais. At the age of 5, he started learning the piano, in a classical framework. The guitar came later, when he was 14, through the influence of the guitarist José Luís Nobre Costa (who would become his master).
Pedro de Castro was born in São Paulo on the 29th August 1977. He has always been very close to the fado community: his parents' friends were fado singers, musicians and players. This led him, from a very young age, to the Fado houses in Cascais. At the age of 5, he started learning the piano, in a classical framework. The guitar came later, when he was 14, through the influence of the guitarist José Luís Nobre Costa (who would become his master).
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