Chaves
Fortress of São Neutel (Chaves) Two years after work finished on the fortress of São Francisco (1664), General Andrade e Sousa began work to the north of the city on a new fortress, separate from the defensive system of Chaves. Equally inspired by the defensive designs of the period, it has a similar appearance to […]
The fortress was built out of granite between 1658 and 1662 on the hill of A Pedisqueira, occupied since ancient times by a convent dedicated to St. Francis (1635) which was first given the name of San João da Veiga under the administration of the Knights Templar, until 1310. The Dukes of Bragança were the […]
Chaves is a city and a municipality 10 km south of the Spanish border and 22 km south of Verín (Spain) in the north of Portugal. With origins in the Roman civitas Aquæ Flaviæ, Chaves has developed into a regional center. Artefacts discovered in the region of Chaves identify the earliest settlement of humans dating back to the Paleolithic. Remnants discovered in Mairos, Pastoria and São Lourenço, those […]
