The village of Vila do Conde dates back to 953 the first documentary reference to the so-called committee villa, related to the sale of land today called Monte do Mosteiro to the Guimarães Monastery, and where the first inhabitants are believed to have settled.
There was a count who lived in Azurara, "with the countess, his wife, of whom he had no children." Returning, once, from a long pilgrimage, sick and sensing death, the count vowed to let go of a white dove and , in the place where it landed, found a convent and a village to which it would give its name. The dove flew and landed in Alto de S.João, where the Count ordered the monastery to be built and the settlement around it, the story concludes. For a long time, the Count of this village was D. Mendes Pais Bofinho. In 953, the town appears under the name of Villa de Comite and Rofinho. Other historians claim that Count Belote was presor and grantee of Vila-Condense lands and that the origin of the toponym Villa de Comite comes from this count
As in Vila do Conde, the Azureans also took advantage of King D. Manuel I's passage to Santiago de Compostela, in 1502, to tell him about the intention to build a parish church and ask him for royal reimbursement. The new church was built next to ...
The river front at the small city of Vila do Conde , only 25km north of Porto, in Portugal
The village of Vila do Conde is extremely old, dating back to 953 the first documentary reference to the so-called committee villa, relating to the sale of land today called Monte do Mosteiro to the Guimarães Monastery, and where the first inhabit...
The Portuguese ship of the sixteenth century was a round ship, with high board, with a ratio of 3: 1 between maximum length and width, three or four decks, stern and bow castles, with three and two decks, respectively, whose architecture integrate...
As for the master, he was in charge of governing sailors and cabin boys, helped by a counter-master. Each one in his own sphere, captain, pilot and master, effectively commanded everything that happened on board. The guardian was directly responsi...
Cabins deck. On board a ship with the average tonnage of those used in the Career of India, the captain supervised, and below him the pilot, pilot pilot, master, counter-master, guardian, two triplets, about sixty sailors and seventy cabin boys, t...
The sailors provided the services inherent to the ship's navigation and maneuvering. Two of the sailors were in charge of looking after and repairing string and candles - they were the triplets. The cabin boys, almost always young teenagers, were ...
... thus, the navigation section from the Tagus river bar to the south of Cape Verde, is almost always described with optimism; sometimes, although more rarely, the defeat did not suffer incidents to the equator, as happened on the voyage of the s...
In the 13th century, Vila do Conde belonged to D. Maria Pais, Ribeirinha, with whom King D. Sancho I fell in love and it would have been a great tetraneta, D. Teresa Martins, married to Afonso Sanches, illegitimate son of King D. Dinis, who will f...
Gothic conventual church with a cruciform plant built in 1318-1526 at the initiative of D. Afonso Sanches, bastard son of D. Dinis, would be completed and partially remodeled in the 16th and 17th centuries. It has a large transept covered with woo...
The Chapel of the Founders, in Manueline style, was built in the first quarter of the 16th century at the initiative of Abbess D. Isabel de Castro, to house the tombs of the founders of the Convent, Dona Teresa Martins and D. Afonso Sanches. The t...
In the 13th century the village belonged to D. Maria Pais, Ribeirinha, with whom King D. Sancho I fell in love and it would have been a great tetraneta, D. Teresa Martins, married to Afonso Sanches, illegitimate son of King D. Dinis, who will foun...
On the side of the Epistle, the tomb ark of D. Fernando de Meneses and his wife D. Brites de Andrade, lords of Cantanhede, descendants of the founders, has the inscriptions on the lid and on one side an inscription.
Chapel of devotion of the sailors of Vila do Conde. Rectangular space facing south, with a vault made of curved ribs (combos), influenced by Biscay, by the masters and architects who built it. The walls are covered in black and yellow tiles and ar...
Gothic and Manueline church, built between 1496-1518 had the patronage of D. Manuel I, and came to replace a previous one, of which there are no traces. Like the construction of the Church of Caminha, this work was directed by successive teachers ...
